V. I.

Lenin

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To:   MAXIM GORKY

Alexei Maximych, Comrade Zinoviev will outline to you a plan of the
Commissariat for Foreign
Affairs. [1] We should try it. Will you please draft a letter after talking it over in detail with
Zinoviev.

Greetings, Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
In a letter to Lenin dated September 26, 1919, Chicherin asked
that the question of a new peace proposal to the Entente should
be discussed in the C.C., R.C.P.(B.). Chicherin wrote that an
official proposal from the government could be addressed to the
Entente, or Gorky could be asked to write a letter pointing out
the Soviet Government’s invariable readiness to sign peace. Lenin
wrote on Chicherin’s letter: “... Not in the name of the
government.... Confine ourselves to Gorky’s letter....” = (See present
edition, Vol. 42, p. 144.)