February 26, 1921

If for 5 minutes,
then
I can
at
23/4>
if you manage to transfer
the Turkish
delegation.*

Vladimir Ilyich, two women delegates from the non-party conference have just arrived: they are demanding so insistently that you come even for 5 minutes that no one can cope with them, they would not listen to Semashko.

The delegates say that the women workers want to go to the Kremlin in a body if you do not come to them. It closes at 8 o'clock. They are asking for an answer.

*
V. I. Lenin spoke at the conference on February 26, 1921; the text of the speech has not been preserved.

1921
TOWARDS THE ELABORATION OF PRACTICAL MEASURES