NOTES ON A LETTER FROM S. M. KIROV
September 1, 1920
Dear Vladimir Ilyich, NB read (reso-
I am sending you the resolutions, adopted at the lutions – base of ideas-
meetings of the “Anatolian and Rumelian Society for the Protection of Rights.” Although these resolutions were
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The note was written in connection with a message from an engineer about a new
method of gold mining.

adopted a year ago, they are still of great interest now, since the basis of the program of activity
of the government of Mustafa Kemal lies precisely in these resolutions.
There are no special news here. The Georgian government is still in
hesitation, not knowing where to swing quite definitely—to us or to the Entente. But in the meantime the economic
life of Georgia is deteriorating every day more and more definitely and the moment is not very
far off when Noi Zhordania together with the exarch of Georgia will have to sing “By the rivers
of Babylon”).
With warm communist greetings,
S. Kirov
Tiflis, August 30, 1920