V. I.

Lenin

Today’s papers have published a telegram over the signatures of

P. B. Axelrod ,

L. Martov ,

Ryazanov , Lunacharsky , and Natanson, reading:

We find it absolutely impossible to return to Russia via England .”

Another telegram signed by Mandelberg, member of the Second
Duma, Professor Reichesberg, Felix Kon, Ustinov, Balabanova,
Andronnikov, and others, reads:

“ We see a way out in an agreement between the Russian and German
governments... for an exchange of prisoners ... in return for the liberation of a corresponding number of
German civilians held in Russia.”

Why shouldn’t the gentlemen of Russkaya Volya and Yedinstvo
declare these political emigrants, too, to be German agents?

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