Dear Comrade, I am sending an article to the Central Organ—as a last resort (i.e., if there is an absolute shortage of material)**. I would like to set this article aside. Return it to me.

* — characteristic of small states. Ed.

** Evidently this refers to the article "The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination" (see Works, 5th ed., vol. 27, pp. 61–68). Ed.