Lenin: 1916/ni-zeta: MUTUAL ACCUSATIONS (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “ζ”

(“ZETA”)

MUTUAL ACCUSATIONS

Mutual Accusations

La Revue de Paris, March 1, 1915 (No. 5, 1915)
article by G. Demorgny “_Turkish-German Methods in Persia_” (with a map of the Russian and British spheres of influence in Persia).

| An imperialist laments German successes. (Char-acteristic for a description of imperialism.) | | | | N.B. | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | ---- |

Incidentally (p. 217):

| | “On December 24 (1914) a bomb intended to wipeout the Russian, French, Belgian and British minis-ters exploded in Teheran, but the attempt failedand the bomb killed one of the participants in theplot organised by a German-Turkish gang”....Author quotes his articles in the magazine Revuedu monde musulman, 1913, Nos. 22 and 23 (Marchand June 1913) and his books: Problems ofthe Danube, Paris, 1911 (Larose et Tenin); The Administration of Persia, Paris,1913 (Leroux), and Persian Financial Institutions,Paris, 1915 (Leroux). | | | N.B. | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ---- | | N.B. | | | |

The Sitchkan-il year (March 21, 1912-March 20, 1913).

1. Russian trade with Persia = 628,857,900 krans (1 kran = 0.4545 franc).

Persian exports to Russia = 69 per cent of total Persian exports.

Persian imports from Russia 58 per cent of total Persian imports (p. 205).

2. Persian imports from Britain = 25 per cent of total Persian Imports.
Persian exports to Britain 13 per cent of total Persian exports.

3. Turkey.

4. German trade with Persia = 24,316,252 krans.

5. France.

6. Italy.

((Countries listed in the order of their trade with Persia: 1-6))

Preussische Jahrbücher, 1915, No. 3 (March), article by Hans Delbrück (p. 485):

| N.B. | | | “On behalf of his Government, the British Ministerin Norway, Findley, tried to hire an assassin in orderto do away with the Irishman Sir Roger Casement”.(From Delbrück’s counter-charges against GreatBritain.) | | ---- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | |

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