Date: 1908
Source: ru:PSS/v48
Dear Comrades!

In conditionally transferring the property of the Bolshevik center to three "holders," the representatives of the Bolsheviks at the last plenum of the Central Committee, in their declaration adopted by the plenum, wrote:

"Steps that would compel us to demand from the holder the return of the money we consider to be: the continuation of the publication by the Mensheviks of their leading factional organ, the preservation of the Menshevik factional fund, and the refusal to assist the general party centers in Russia and abroad."

Accepting our declaration, the plenum resolved: "If... the representatives of the Bolshevik trend, referring to the reasons indicated in their declaration, make a claim for the issuance to them of the remaining sum at that time, then this question in its entirety... is finally decided by these holders, with a plenum being convened beforehand for this purpose, which adopts a decision on this matter."*

Now, for ourselves and by proxy for Comrade Meshkovsky, we are making the requirement envisaged by the Central Committee. In view of this, the plenum must be convened immediately. Requesting the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee to expedite the convening of the plenum, we, on our part, are ready to facilitate this expediting in every possible way.
5/XII. 10. Paris.

Lenin

Kamenev
Zinoviev in 2-3 editions of the Collected Works written by hand

G. E. Zinoviev

* See No. 11 of the Central Organ.

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First published in 1929-1930

V. I. Lenin, Vol. XV

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