To: Comrade Radchenko, People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade
Copy: To Comrade Kirpichnikov, Hydrotorf

I request that you provide me with the most concise answers—no more than one or at most two pages in total—to certain questions, so that I may present the corresponding sections of my report to the Congress of Soviets more precisely and include certain of the most significant figures.

I request that you provide me with an exact formulation, no more than one page in length, concerning precisely what has been ordered in Germany for Hydrotorf. Will this be ready by spring?

* See present volume, document 144. Ed.