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 invalid, because such mandates contradict the spirit of an international, centralised, proletarian world party.

The Executive.

The Executive is to be elected by the Congress. It shall consist of the President, 24 members and 10 substitutes. No less than 15 members of the Executive must be permanently domiciled in Moscow.

The Enlarged Executive.

Regularly every four months meetings of an Enlarged Executive shall take place. These sessions are to be composed in the following manner:—

(1) Of 25 members of the Executive.

(2) Of additional. three representatives from each of the following parties: Germany, France, Russia, Czecho-Slovakia, and Italy; also the Young Communist International and the Profintern.

(3) Of two representatives from England, Poland, America, Bulgaria and Norway.

(4) Of one representative from each of the other countries that are entitled to votes.

It is the duty of the Presidium to submit to the meetings of the Enlarged Executive all the more important fundamental questions that permit of delay. The first Enlarged Executive must take place immediately after the World Congress.

The Presidium.

The elected Executive, at its first meeting shall choose a Presidium, which is to include one representative each from the Y.C.L. and the Profintern, with consultative votes, and is to comprise the following departments:—

(1) An Oriental Department, to whose activities the Executive must devote special attention during the coming year; the Director of the Oriental Department must be a member of the Presidium. In its political activity this department is subordinate to the Presidium; its relations with the Organisation Bureau are regulated by the Presidium.

(2) A Department of Organisation (Org. Bureau), containing no less than two members of the Presidium. The Org. Bureau is subordinated to the Presidium.

(3) A Department of Agitation and Propaganda, under the guidance of one member of the Executive. Also this department is directly subordinated to the Presidium.

(4) A Department of Statistics and Information, subordinated to the Org. Bureau.

(5) The Executive has the right of establishing additional departments.

Division of Work among the Members of the Executive.

An exact division of work is to be made among the members of the Executive as well as of the Presidium. For the