16249

ANNOTATION ON B. N. MAIZEL'S LETTER¹

To the Restinsky and members of the P. Bureau
21/XI. 1920 Lenin

¹ Written on a letter to Lenin concerning deficiencies in the work of the economic apparatus and abuses by economic workers in a number of places in Ukraine and Byelorussia, revealed as a result of a partial audit conducted of the Ekaterinoslav gubernial special food committee.
The letter is signed: "B. Maizel."

16255

NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

[1920, after 22 November]

Comrade Chicherin!

Would you not write a draft response, if it is necessary, Comrade?

Yours, Lenin

¹ This concerns a draft response to the credentials of the Soviet Government from the president of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), presented to Lenin by the extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary representative of Turkey to the RSFSR, General Ali Fuad Pasha.

The credentials stated: "...we entrust him to exert all efforts in order to further strengthen the bonds of friendship and brotherhood that unite our peoples, we ask that You treat benevolently all declarations that he shall make on behalf of our Government."