NOTES ON MEMOS FROM SECRETARIES
August 17, 1920
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Reed asks to see him today for 5 minutes.
Good. When
A very important matter. At 9 o'clock?
the Council of People's Commissars ends.
Vladimir Ilyich probably won't receive
John Reed—it's already late, will the question drag on?
Reed is sitting in his room and waiting for a call. (He,
by the way, has learned Russian very well!)
13258 very much aIf sking for 5 minutes, let him come now.
ABOUT RATIONS FOR PETROGRAD SCIENTISTS
RESOLUTIONS ON LETTERS FROM A. M. GORKY
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August 18, 1920
I ask the Small Council to consider the matter as soon as possible and, if posLenin
sible, to satisfy*
*
In a letter to the Council of People's Commissars, A. M. Gorky, on behalf of
the Petrograd Commission for Improving the Life of Scientists, asked to preserve
2 thousand academic rations allocated for Petrograd scientists.