MEMORANDUM TO G. V. CHICHERIN

21. III. 1918

Comrade Chicherin, The bearer—comrade Morris Leiteyzen¹—personally known to me, a Bolshevik, would like to have the opportunity to travel to Italy (having found, for example, a suitable position in our mission) for propaganda abroad. I would very much ask that you inform him and assist him if the opportunity presents itself²

¹ G. V. Chicherin—at this time deputy people's commissar of foreign affairs of the RSFSR.

² M. G. Leiteyzen, son of the well-known revolutionary Bolshevik G. D. Leiteyzen, a party member since March 1917. In 1918 he was part of the Soviet mission in Switzerland, and was subsequently sent to Stockholm.