4) Wasn't it out of "patriotism," out of a desire to "wage war" that this seemed to Odintsov?

It seems to me that Odintsov's information fully corresponds to the logic of things: X the refusal of a demarcation line on the Don, a ruddy-faced delegation in Kiev, etc. Unable to move their forces, the Germans want to overwhelm us with a Cossack uprising of the Don, Kuban, Lower Volga, Urals, and Siberia. I consider it necessary to put this message in print, and then report it on the radio to Ioffe as the voice of the press. X Really ?? And about Ioffe
 3 and so on.
We must consult with Chicherin.
Don't you know that the Germans refused to tie their hands in the direction of the Don Republic?! This is worse than forgetting about the...* Soviet constitution.
I am sending our correspondence to Chicherin.
1 The correspondence apparently took place at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars, when on May 29, 1918, an appeal to the Cossacks of the Don and Kuban was discussed in connection with the negotiations of P. N. Krasnov with P. P. Skoropadsky and representatives of the German Empire. The underlinings in L. D. Trotsky's responses belong to V. I. Lenin.
2 S. I. Odintsov - Major General of the old army. From April 1917 - commander of the 3rd Caucasus Cossack Division. In 1918 - manager of the office of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs.
3 A. A. Ioffe - from April to November 1918 - plenipotentiary representative of the RSFSR in Berlin.

NOTE TO A. A. IOFFE
31/V - 1918 g.

Comrade Ioffe!
The bearer is comrade
Valentina
Bogrova x, who was the secretary of the St. Petersburg Soviet in 1905. Please help her to stay in Berlin for a serious operation with a local celebrity.
I sent you today (and Zagorsky)
2 another little note
3.
I hope you received it.
Greetings! Your Lenin
1 See this collection, pp. 30, 69, 75, 76.
2 V. M. Zagorsky (Lubotsky) - after the October Revolution he worked at the Soviet embassy in Berlin. In June 1918 he came to Moscow and was soon elected secretary of the Moscow Committee of the party.
* As in the original.

1917 (DECEMBER) - 1918

3 This document of V. I. Lenin is not in the Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU.

NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT
FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

[1918, no earlier than the end of May]
In my opinion, You should immediately, for tomorrow's newspaper,
give an arch-alarmist message:
bloc of Englishmen + Frenchmen + Czechoslovaks + Whites with Japanese.
The threat of the Japanese, etc.
1 In connection with the landing of Japanese troops in Vladivostok and the mutiny of the Czechoslovak Corps, starting from May 24, 1918, and until the end of the month (see Pravda Nos. 101 - 100 from May 24 - 30, 1918), articles were published on this topic.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES with G. V. CHICHERIN

[May–June 1918]
Lockhart received two more telegrams about two ships in Arkhangelsk
2.
The unwillingness to take the goods sent to us and needed by us and to pay for them with goods in excess will be clearly hostile to England.
In my opinion, we must agree.
Tomorrow the commission (in the morning) of Nevsky, Rykov, Trotsky
3.
You need to come there and get to the bottom of it personally.
Only in case of dissatisfaction - formally declare to me
or
to the SNK.
1 The correspondence was at one of the meetings of the Council of People's Commissars. It seems that we are talking about the next meeting of the Extraordinary Commission for Evacuation.
2 Robert Hamilton Lockhart - from January 1918 head of the special English mission to the Soviet government.
It was not possible to establish what telegrams of Lockhart and ships are being discussed.
3 V. I. Nevsky at this time - a member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Railways; Rykov A. I. - Chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy; Trotsky L. D. - People's Commissar for Naval Affairs.

LETTER TO HENRI GUILBEAUX

[June 2, 1918]
To Comrade Guilbeaux
Dear Comrade! I hope you won't judge me harshly. I am very busy. This is because I have too little time, and I will limit myself to greeting you and asking you to write me a few lines from time to time. A thousand greetings!
Your Lenin
Printed according to the text of the journal:
"Schweizerische
Zeitschrift für
Geschichte"
1968, As
J,
translated from
French.
In
Russian it is published for the first time.
1 V. I. Lenin sent this letter to Henri Guilbeaux together with a note to Ya. A. Berzin, who headed the Soviet mission in Switzerland in 1918, and G. L. Shklovsky on June 2, 1918 (see V. I. Lenin. Poln. sobr. soch., vol. 50, p. 89).

NOTE TO L. A. FOTIEVA

[June 13, 1918]
If you and Gorbunov chatter at the meeting, I will put you both in the corner.
1 The note was written at a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on June 3, 1918.
L. A. Fotieva and N. P. Gorbunov worked as secretaries of the SNK at this time.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES with S. M. TER-GABRIELYAN

[1918, June, no earlier than 6]
Esteemed Vladimir Ilyich!
I implore you, order the Centrobron, so that it will load the Baku detachment tomorrow without fail, otherwise, I will be powerless to do anything for the immediate departure.
Ter-Gabrielyan