Dear friend! I received your article, read it, and am forwarding it to Bukharin.

From the note on Trotsky we must of course now strike out the passage about the votes within "Kommunist." But should we strike out everything about the Chkheidze faction? After all, therein lies the crux of the political situation and for quite some time to come!

Everyone thanks you profusely for the cherries!

I have no news from France or anywhere else, so on this point, try as you might, you won't get around it. "Title": La Chesnais: "Le groupe socialiste du Reichstag et la declaration de guerre" (Paris, 1915, "L'Humanité," 1 fr. 50)**. I ask you to have Grisha send it.

* — versus — with respect to. Ed.

** — La Chesnais. "The Group of Socialists of the Reichstag and the Declaration of War" (Paris, 1915, "L'Humanité," 1 fr. 50). Ed.