NOTE TO A. I. RYKOV
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NOTE ON A TELEGRAM FROM N. KI. [1.]
May 16, 1918

To be approved if the Collegium of Prisoners of War does not protest.
Lenin.

1 In a telegram addressed to Lenin, L. Karakhan, Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, requested that a credit of 20 million rubles opened for the needs of prisoners of war to the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs be transferred to the accounts of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, in connection with numerous financial demands (to satisfy prisoners of war) from representatives of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs abroad.

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NOTE TO A. I. RYKOV.

Rykov
[May 17, 1918]1

Where and how did you disappear?
1 Did you speak with the credit / cooperative societies? Result?
2 – with others about the exchange of money2?
3 I have Grigoriev's draft3 (on the creation of a bureau of experts in water affairs4). In my opinion, it must be approved immediately.

He also asks, begs: for a commissar! in Glavvod.
Should Shliapnikov5 be appointed?

1 Basis for the date: In his response to Lenin, Rykov mentions submitting the draft decree on Glavvod to the Council of People's Commissars "tomorrow." This draft was considered at the meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on May 18, 1918. Lenin's note to Rykov was apparently written the day before.
2 Lenin, back in mid-December 1917, raised the question "of introducing rules for the exchange of banknotes for others - for supervision of the actual implementation of the compulsory holding of money in banks" (see "Draft Decree on the Socialization of the National Economy," item 10; Works, vol. XXII, p. 140). Lenin outlined this issue for development in his "Basic Provisions of Economic and, in particular, Financial Policy" (see pp. 160-161 of the Collection), considering it necessary to carry out this measure "to weaken the economic power of the bourgeoisie" (Works, vol. XXII, p. 140).
3 Grigoriev - a specialist in water management, a responsible employee of the Supreme Council of National Economy.
4 The decree on the transformation of the governing bodies of water transport was published in "Izvestia VTsIK" No. 102 of May 23, 1918.
5 When discussing this issue, the Council of People's Commissars approved the draft of the Supreme Council of National Economy on the composition of the Glavvod Collegium of 5 persons.