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COPY TO BURNS [HEALY] AND ROSS [DOWSON]
1902 Hyperion
Los Angeles 27, Calif.
Dear Farrell:
A careful letter from you to Livio might be useful. I can't judge very well and would like to hear Jerry's reaction. We're still in the dark about how Pablo got information about the IC meeting. He may have gotten a copy of the Minutes and purposely garbled them to protect his source. The notation that the alleged Minutes are "retranslated from a translation" might indicate something like that.
The alleged Minutes published by Pablo read to me like something transcribed in distorted form from notes of a report by Jerry on the Toronto meeting—possibly one made in England. However that may be, if Pablo has a true copy of the Minutes of the IC meeting—with the resolution which we received and objected to so strongly—he would have plenty of ammunition. Every concession that has been made to the French in the unity negotiations has played directly into Pablo's hands. For my part, I am ready to call a halt once and for all to any acquiescence in this stupidity.
Fraternally
James P. Cannon
JPC:jh