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 amount of patience in this matter; we would like the comrades to continue to attend the Congress, and we feel that the Party should be given at least two or three months before deciding, so that all the workers in the K.A.P.D. can consider the question. We consider it to be our absolute duty, in the name of the International, to allow the workers of the K.A.P.D. to make the decision themselves.

I must reply to Comrade Marcovich who protested pretty sharply against my report. He is of the opinion that I am wrong in thinking that certain Centrist elements are still to be found in the Yugo-Slavian Party, and he has begged us to remember the past of this Party. The glorious past of this party, and the glorious past of many martyred leaders of this party, is well known to us, and we have never doubted it.

I must explain what has lead to my point of view on the subject. I had an interview with the Yugo-Slavian delegation when it first arrived here. There were about fifteen comrades present, and after our interview it became clear that Comrade Marcovich, who appears to be the chairman of the delegation, does not share our point of view concerning the Italian and the German questions; on the contrary, he even opposes it. Comrade Marcovich said in his speech before the Congress that according to his present conviction, the March action meant a step forward. At our first interview he shared Levi's point point of view. I am very glad that Marcovich himself has taken a "step forward" in respect to this question.

If what I have just stated appears incomprehensible to certain comrades, this should be ascribed to the fact that Comrade Marcovich entertained grave doubts concerning both these important questions, the Italian as well as the German, and he made no secret of his difficulty. Undoubtedly he is quite justified in defending his own opinion, but it was also my very good right to state my fear that in this Party