At the same time as this letter 12 copies of the Address. Various small printer’s errors, omission of small words, etc., but nothing that distorts the sense. Will be corrected in the 2nd edition. You must not forget that the General Council has to deal with susceptibilities on all sides, and therefore cannot write as the two of us could in our own name. The news from Brunswick came to us yesterday evening from Liebknecht, but as usual with Wilhelm’s vagueness, i.e. unusable. I have today sent notes about it to the *Pall Mall*, *Echo*, etc. The fact is very good. This time the hunt for demagogues begins before the end of the war and is directed against the workers, instead of the windy students of yesteryear. It is very good that the Prussians show themselves as they are and destroy all possible illusions in the working class even before the conclusion of peace. Also the working class can only be driven into the fire through direct persecution by the state. The ‘Republic’ – even the mere phrase – has nevertheless given the matter a completely different turn. E.g. Mr George Potter – this working-class hero of the *Bee-Hive* – declares himself publicly a Republican. This shows you the mood in London. I hope that the Prussian court policy will bring the matter to a head here. That is a capital lever, the unconstitutional interference of the granddaughter of George III and the mother-in-law of Fritz! For all that, Bismarck is an ass. Because everything succeeded for him so long as he was the instrument of the German unity strivings, he has lost his head to such an extent that he now believes he can, without shame or grief, pursue specifically Prussian policy, not only abroad but also at home. Yesterday there was a workers’ meeting in a hall at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. We were sitting, as usual on Tuesday, in our meeting. A telegram arrived: come to the rescue. The Peace Society chaps, who have ‘bought up’ a significant number among the workers (e.g. Cremer), had secured a majority – albeit a very weak one. Our sudden appearance turned the scale. The matter concerned various resolutions for the French Republic, which, as the Peace Society asserted, could lead to war with Prussia. I have today written at length, by way of instruction, to Belgium and to Switzerland, likewise to the United States. The enclosed letter from Serraillier will interest you and Dupont. It is only fragmentary, as the other part contains family affairs and therefore remained in the possession of Madame Serraillier. Salut.

D. K. M. Secretary for Russia!

The book by Schäffle is called: ‘Kapitalismus und Socialismus etc.’