Could we not, in the case of the son of Dauge<sup>2</sup> (this son is at a military aviation school<sup>3</sup>) — Dauge says that his son was falsely accused of White Guardism and therefore (??!!) expelled from the school — appoint, by order of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs, a commission consisting without fail of Party and experienced people? I have no data at all, only doubts in view of the bad company he was in. Removing him from that milieu, I believe, will completely cure him. But what bad company? with whom? when? where was he? for how long? I do not know the details, except what the father said, and this is evidently more just fears concerning his aviator comrades. I believe that he is simply apolitical and will be an excellent technician if only given the chance. Previously, the father, by his desire to keep him from the dangers of aviation, spoiled the son’s relations.

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<sup>1</sup> E. M. Sklyansky — Deputy People’s Commissar for Military Affairs.

<sup>2</sup> P. G. Dauge — one of the founders of the Latvian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, historian, publicist, doctor of medicine. In 1918 — People’s Commissar of Education of Latvia, then member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR.

<sup>3</sup> On 14 August 1918, there is a directive from V. I. Lenin to the school department of the Air Fleet Administration concerning the enrollment of M. P. Dauge in the Moscow Aviation School. Prior to this, he had completed courses at the Moscow Higher Technical School, where he showed a great love for aviation and flying. Since the flying school admitted mainly Communists, M. P. Dauge’s father appealed personally to V. I. Lenin with a request to help enroll his son in the aviation school, which M. P. Dauge successfully completed and bravely fought on the fronts of the civil war (see Zharov F. I., *Podvigi krasnykh letchikov*, Moscow, 1963, pp. 24–25).