27/XII.

We received your letter about the coup d'etat* and are responding at once. We are astounded at how Zarin could have permitted such a scandal!! Here are the fruits of his error in refusing to enter the committee! — we have long been insisting on this. We shall not print anything about the statement for now, since we have received neither the statement itself nor letters against it. By all means open hostilities, force Zarin to enter, draw up a protocol on the break (or on the number of votes pro and contra**) and issue a local leaflet.

* — of a coup (referring to the seizure of the Kiev committee by the "Economists," the rabochedeltsty). Ed.

** — for and against. Ed.