We have an unexplained delay***. The Mensheviks are demanding the sanction of the Council of Workers' Deputies. Send someone immediately to Finland or Petrograd to negotiate with Chkheidze, if possible. It would be desirable to have Belenin's opinion 479. Telegram to the People's House, Bern.

Ulyanov

* - Fraternal greetings to Ulyanov, Zinoviev. We are leaving for Petrograd today, etc. Ed.

** In 1924, in the II Lenin Collection, this letter was mistakenly printed as a letter from Zinoviev. Ed.

*** For more details on the delay in the departure of emigrants to Russia, see the letter from N. K. Krupskaya to V. M. Kasparov (Lenin Collection XIII, p. 271-272). Ed.