NOTE TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

**[1918, not before late May]**

In my view, you should immediately, for tomorrow's newspaper, issue an arch-alarmist communiqué: the bloc of the English + French + Czechoslovaks + Whites with the Japanese. The threat from the Japanese, etc.¹

¹ In connection with the landing of Japanese troops at Vladivostok and the mutiny of the Czechoslovak corps, articles on this subject were printed in *Pravda*, beginning from May 24, 1918 and through the end of the month (see *Pravda* nos. 101-100 of May 24-30, 1918).

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