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Note to Joseph Stalin with a Draft Telegram to Georgy Chicherin, April 21, 1922
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from secretarial notes (typewritten, copy).
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 532b-533a.
This telegram of Leninâs sent to Genoa on April 21, 1922, was in reply to G. V. Chicherinâs telegram of April 20, objecting to Leninâs assessment of the situation at the conference and saying that it, was âin fact mainly Lloyd George himself who had an interestâ in the question of compensating foreigners for the losses arising from the nationalisation of their property, âbecause pressure was being brought to bear on him by the almighty British sharksâ (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee).
Comrade Stalin
Please have the following telegram of mine sent to Chicherin, if the Politbureau members have no objection.
âTo Comrade Chicherin
âI have never had any doubts that Lloyd George is acting under the pressure of British sharks and that. Britain will not stay on without France, but I think that this should not alter our policy in the slightest, and that we should not be afraid of the conference breaking up. We cannot accept recognition of the private debts under any circumstances. I think I know the actual situation.
Leninâ