Letter to Georgy Chicherin, September 1, 1921

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Written on a telegram from J. A. Berzin addressed to G. V. Chicherin, saying that M. I. Skobelev, who had started negotiations with the French Government as a representative of the All-Russia Famine Relief Committee, was requesting powers from the Soviet Government as well.

Below is the reference to the appointment of Joseph Noulens, one-time French Ambassador to Russia (1917–18), one of the organisers of counter-revolutionary plots against the Soviet power and of foreign armed intervention, to the Chairmanship of the International Relief Commission. The commission (Britain, France, Italy and Belgium) was set up by a decision of the Allied Supreme Council and was in fact, a cover for implementing anti-Soviet plans.

This Skobelev should be “cut down to size”. Noulens’s appointment is a piece of impudence.

1/IX.

Lenin