Comrade Chicherin!

I agree with you that we shall have to receive France. Perhaps you would be so kind as to correct the enclosed and have it retyped on my letterhead.

Should we wait for Krassin (he arrives July 13)? Or would it be awkward to thrust Krassin upon France? Or, on the contrary, would that be very clever?

Your Lenin

Written July 7, 1921

First publication, from the manuscript