March 19, 1920
That is sufficient. Please prepare a summary of Gorky’s points for
sending to him.
*
We are speaking of L. B. Krasin, who at that time headed the Soviet mission in London.
* * The directive was written on a telegram from the People’s Commissariat for Trade to Petrograd, addressed to Petrokomprod’s A. E. Badayev (it is reproduced in the telegram from V. I. Lenin to A. M. Gorky, published below).