I not only request you to insert the enclosed reply in your next 
number,* but I demand an ample and complete apology in the same 
place of your paper where you have inserted the libel.” 

I should regret being forced to take legal proceedings against 
your paper. 

Yours obediently, 
K. M. 

Written on August 19, 1871 Reproduced from the rough 

; ‘ : manuscript 

Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXIV, 
193] 

4 See this volume, p. 393.— Ed. 

b “A German View of the Internationale”, Public Opinion, No. 517, August 19, 
1871.— Ed. 

393 

Karl Marx