Letter to Georgy Chicherin and Members of the Politbureau of the RCP(b) CC on a Note to the Entente Powers Concerning the Lausanne Conference, October 31, 1922

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31/X.1922

To Comrade Chicherin and all members of the Politbureau

I have no time now to weigh with sufficient consideration all the expressions in the draft Note to the Entente, which I believe to be very important. I think that every word should be checked two or three times to see that it does not mean that we shall refuse to attend the conference.

In that sense, the Note should be especially “diplomatic”. It seemed to me that at the end of the Note, which T gave a very cursory glance, there are expressions which are not sufficiently diplomatic in this sense.

Lenin

31/X.1922

To Comrade Chicherin and all members of the Politbureau

I have no time now to weigh with sufficient consideration all the expressions in the draft Note to the Entente, which I believe to be very important. I think that every word should be checked two or three times to see that it does not mean that we shall refuse to attend the conference.

In that sense, the Note should be especially “diplomatic”. It seemed to me that at the end of the Note, which T gave a very cursory glance, there are expressions which are not sufficiently diplomatic in this sense.

Lenin