V. I.

Lenin

634

To:   L. B. KAMENEV AND G. V. CHICHERIN

Kamenev and Chicherin

Comrade Kamenev’s plan is utterly incorrect. [1] Our business with Britain is purely commercial. Chicherin is
not right. We should send to Britain only a “tradesman”;
if they ask 2 1/4 kopeks, beat them down to 1 3/4 kopeks.

Exposures here are harmful. This is not 1918. We have the Comintern for that. All Kamenev’s arguments—
arguments against his going.

Lenin

10/VII.

P.S. For the time being we shall appoint Krasin, Vorovsky
and another 2–3 assistants. [2]

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This refers to Kamenev’s letter of July 9, 1920, concerning the
nature of the Anglo-Russian talks, in which he wrote that
political negotiations should be conducted “on the broadest agitational
lines” recounting “widely and publicly the whole history of the
intervention, including Kolchak, Denikin, Poland, Wrangel, Lithuania, Estonia, etc., etc., and touching on and raising all
the questions of Eastern policy from Turkey to China”. =

In his postscript to this letter Chicherin supported Kamenev, who in
turn again put forward the proposal—“without breaking off the
negotiations, and in a mild tone, to present to Lloyd George the
history of British plundering on a world scale”. =

When Lenin read the letter, he wrote on it: = “I disagree in principle. 10/VII. Lenin .”