[March 1920, no earlier than 15]
I do not object if he undertakes to replace himself without harm to the cause.
1. The published resolution is written on a telegram from the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 5th Army, I. N. Smirnov, in which he reported that he had been elected as a delegate to the 9th Congress of the RCP(b) from the 5th Army and asked the Central Committee of the RCP(b) whether there were any objections to his departure from Siberia.