34. Karl Marx. To the Editor of The Standard

Sir,

In this morning's Standard⁽¹⁾ your Paris correspondent translates from the Gazette de France⁽²⁾ a letter dated Berlin, April 28, 1871, and purporting to be signed by me. I beg to state that this letter is from beginning to end a forgery, quite as much as all the previous pretended letters of mine lately published in the Paris-Journal and other French police papers.⁽³⁾ If the Gazette de France professes to have taken the letter from German papers, this must be a falsehood too. A German paper would never have dated that fabrication from Berlin.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

Karl Marx

London, July 13

Published in The Standard, No. 14651, Reproduced from the newspaper July 17, 1871

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Endnotes

(1) "France", The Standard, No. 14648, July 13, 1871.— Ed.

(2) "L'Internationale", La Gazette de France, July 11, 1871.— Ed.

(3) See this volume, pp. 364, 366.— Ed.