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Lenin

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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO L. B. KRASIN

Comrade Krasin
Copy to Comrade Chicherin

Klyshko has sent a telegram to your address on the 21st,
saying that substantial assistance to Russia can be got
through only in the event of a more or less favourable attitude to the Soviet Government on the part of Britain’s
government circles. [1] I very much fear that Klyshko is
taking the wrong approach and is allowing himself to be
involved in inadmissible promises or statements. We don’t
care about Britain’s government circles. Klyshko should
be taken to task, and made to use his head.

Lenin