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 We are naturally very proud, omen that the workers of the various countries grant us this honour at present. We have tried, and we shall continue our efforts in the future, to consider the problems of international revolution concretely for each separate country, and to study the situation in all countries, and learn from them what they know better than we. This May article proves, however, very distinctly that our comrades of the K.A.P.D. are following the footsteps of Serati, and will land in the arms of Dittman.

I have been informed by telegraph of a resolution adopted by the enlarged Central Committee of the K.A.P.D. on June 5, 1921: "The enlarged Central Committee of the K.A.P.D. declares that the affiliation of the K.A.P.D. to the Third International, either with advisory or full rights, remains dependent on the inviolability of its programme."

A splendid International that. The programmeof the K.A.P.D. must be "inviolable." If so, why not the programmes of the French, Italian, and Czecho-Slovakian parties? What sort of childishness is that? There can be no International in which this party or that party is inviolable.

The Central Committee further declares: "In the matter of amalgamation with the V.K.P.D, every ultimatum has been rejected. The delegates are authorised to declare, if: necessary, our immediate withdrawal from the Third International."

Comrades, if this should happen, if our comrades of the K.A.P.D. really consider it useful at present to withdraw from the International—I trust that they will consider this. very carefully—if they do not recognise the decisions of the Communist International proletariat, if they take as a standard the teachings of the Dutch School, they may do so. I believe that we, this Congress, need not be sorry for these experiences. We have demonstrated to every revolutionary worker of the K.A.P.D, that we meant to be upright and fraternal, that we wished to co-