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 the same attitude as our declaration. As far as it deals with the Russian Party, we declare that this so-called whining letter (as Comrade Zinoviev called it) demanded of the Russian Central Committee exactly what it was itself obliged to do, namely, to declare publicly (December 18) that nobody even entertained the thought that Comrade Trotsky would be forced out of leading Party and State posts.

When the Polish Central Committee demanded that the Russian Central Committee should make such a public declaration, it was not aware that this had already been done.

As to the reproaches of Comrade Zinoviev regarding our alleged factional attitude, we declare that Comrade Zinoviey should know that we ourselves are zealous in introducing Bolshevik principles of organisation into the Polish Party. It was self-evident to the Polish comrades that the attack of Comrade Trotsky upon the Party machine was a very serious error.

As regards the repeated assertions of Comrade Zinoviev that Polish comrades took part in various Germany commissions and could have there given expression to their point of view, we declare that, without desiring to deny a part of the responsibility for the October events, it must be placed on record that no Polish comrade took part in a German commission. Comrade Walski was once elected to the commission appointed to draw up the November letter to the German Central Committee, but was never invited to its sessions, and was therefore unable to take part in its work.

Moscow, January 21, 1924.

The present document, which is of extreme importance for the whole of the Comintern, was drawn up at a recent conference of the E.C.C.I. with representatives of the Central Committee of the German Communist Party.

A serious regrouping of political forces within the Central Committee of the German Communist Party has taken place, as the result of the political crisis just passed through.

These groups have crystallised out as follows. A right group (Brandler), which however, received an insignificant minority on the Central Committee (2 votes against 27); then a compact group, which at present represents the main body of the Party (17 votes on the Central Committee); and finally, the old left (Berlin and Hamburg),

In the opinion of the E.C.C.I. it is necessary at present to achieve a complete fusion of the central group with the left group against the opportunist errors of the right. The beginning of this