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Letter to unidentified addressee, January 11 or 12, 1917
Today, Nobs and MĂźnzenberg told me the following facts which are not without significance.
On Jan. 7, MĂźnzenberg proposed that the congress should be postponed to March (clearly wishing by this proposition to expose the hypocrisy of the arguments used by Grimm+ the social-patriots). It was defeated.[1]
Greulich proposed postponement until May. Nobs stated that he was in favour (once again choosing the lesser evil and exposing the same crowd). When Nobs said that he was for, Greulich (what a character!) immediately withdrew his proposition (having seen his mistake). Then Naine declared that he was moving Greulichâs proposal. It was defeated.
MĂźnzenberg proposed that the cantonal committees (to whom the matter has now been referred) should be allowed time until July. It was defeated!
These facts show up Grimmâs unprecedented impudence, when he says in his article (Berner Tagwacht of Jan. 8 or 9, ParteibeschlĂźsse)[2] that the Left wing, too, were âin principleâ not against postponement!
MĂźnzenberg has written an article for Volksrecht (Nobs hag promised to insert it tomorrow or the day after) against the decision of the Partei-Vorstand.[3][4]
After reading this, send it on to Olga, for her to send to Abramovich
- â A reference to W. MĂźnzenbergâs speech at a sitting of the Executive of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party on January 7, 1917, on the question of postponing the party congress set for February 11, 1917, in Berne, to discuss the war question (see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 217â19 and 283).
- â ParteibeschlĂźsse (Party Decisions)âan unsigned editorial article in the daily of the Swiss Social-Democrats, Berner Tagwacht No. 6, January 8, 1917.
- â Party executive.âEd.
- â The Zurich Social-Democratic newspaper, Volksrecht (Peopleâs Right) No. 11, January 13, 1917, carried an article âZur Parteitagsverschiebungâ (On the Postponement of the Party Congress), signed âgâ, opposing the decision of the Executive of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party of January 7 to postpone the convocation of the congress indefinitely.