3.VIII.1920.

т. Chicherin!

Mr. Roy (Indian revolutionary, member of Congress) would like to see you1.

He asks for help for India.

I tell him: we can't do it now (with arms). Wait for the end of the war with the Polisha and Wangel.

It is necessary to caress and support.

Vanek, from the revolutionary social-democracy of Bohemia2, tells about Karpatic Russia. You should listen to him and order to collect information about Karpatic Rus thoroughly.

Your Lenin.

Fond 2, op. 2, d. 357 - autograph.

1 M.Roy and M.Vanek participated in the II Congress of the Comintern. With M.Roy Lenin could talk July 25, 1920. - on July 25, 1920, on the day of work under the chairmanship of Lenin of the Commission on National and Colonial Questions established by the II Congress of the Comintern. Roy, a member of this commission, spoke there twice.

2 M. Vanek was a delegate to the congress from the "Marxist left" Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party, a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Pravo ludu.