Point out to them the inadmissibility of procrastination. They are obligated to give a brief answer immediately; we shall grant a postponement (they must ask: for how many days) only for a more detailed report.

Give me the text of the telegram in response to them.

Written June 28, 1920

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript

* See the following document. Ed.