January 3, 1873
To the editor of The Times
Sir, -My attention is called to a paragraph in The Times of to-day headed “Karl Marx and the International.” It is there asserted the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association, while calling upon the different federations and sections to propose themselves the plenipotentiaries to be appointed by the General Council, has declared it “imperatively necessary that an exact copy should be simultaneously forwarded to Karl Marx in London. The drift of this that none will receive credentials but those acceptable to and approved by Karl Marx in London, and as the agents will, as a matter of course, have to be in constant communication with him, he will be virtually the autocrat of the movement.”
Marx did get a letter published in January 1873 so only a 21 year wait
Marx & Engels to the Times 29th January 1852
Sir,
The destruction of the last remnants of an independent press
on the Continent has made it the honourable duty of the English
press to record every act of illegality and oppression in that
quarter of Europe. Allow me, therefore, through your columns, to
lay before the public a fact, which shows that the judges in Prussia
are quite on a level with the political menials of Louis Napoleon.
You know what a valuable moyen de government* a well got-up
conspiracy may turn out, if brought forward at the proper
moment. The Prussian government, in order to render their
parliament pliable, wanted such a plot in the beginning of last
year. Accordingly, numbers of persons were arrested, and the
police was set to work all over Germany. But nothing was made
out, and after all, but a few individuals were ultimately retained in
prison at Cologne, under the pretext of being the chiefs of a
widespread revolutionary organisation. T h e principal of them are
Dr. Becker and Dr. Bürgers, two gentlemen connected with the
press, Dr. Daniels, Dr. Jacobi and Dr. Klein, medical practitioners..
Marx and Engels 29th January 1852.
The Times didn’t like Marx and Engels politics (much as in 2024) and didn’t publish the letter
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