Leon Trotsky: Letter to Walter Held

January 29, 1934

[Writing of Leon Trotsky, Vol. 14, New York 1979, p. 445, title: “Questions About Holland”]

Dear Comrade Held:

Where do things stand with the youth conference? Was the commission of four in Amsterdam, which had been picked in Paris to prepare the youth conference, created, or did the Dutch conflict bury that with all the other things? That would be a crime. .

Please insist on learning about Maria Reese and her eventual residence in Holland. It seems that she is also waiting in vain, but not with indifference, to collect payments for her articles.

Are there any new events that should be reported in the development of the NAS question?

Has the remainder of de Kadt’s article been published? If so, I would really like to have it, because I promised Sneevliet I would answer de Kadt.

Are the theses “War and the Fourth International” being discussed in one form or another? If not, you yourself should take the thing in hand and send us the opinions, and eventually the proposals, of the Dutch. In a short while you will receive an addition to these theses about the USSR.