Karl Marx

STATEMENT
[SENT TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD
OF THE KOLNISCHE ZEITUNG]

A report dated Paris, February 25 in No. 51 of the Kolnische
Zeitung includes the following item a propos of the so-called
Franco-German conspiracy ':

“Several of the accused, who have fled, among them a certain A. Majer, who is
described as an agent of Marx and his confederates...”

The falsehood of this assertion, which generously accords me
not only “confederates” but an “agent” as well, is proved by the
following facts: A. Majer, one of the most intimate friends of Herr
K. Schapper and the former Prussian lieutenant Willich, acted as
book-keeper to the Refugee Committee headed by them.’” I
learned of the departure from London of this personage, who is a
complete stranger to me, from a letter written by a friendin
Geneva in which he reported that a certain A. Majer was
purveying the most absurd gossip about me. Finally I read in French
newspapers that this A. Majer is a “politician”.

London, March 3, 1852
Karl Marx

No. 57, March 6, 1852 paper

Probably Ernst Dronke.— Ed.