V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Comrade Chicherin

Copy to Comrade Unshlikht

Comrade Chicherin!

I have just finished a conversation with Senator France. He brought me his resolution, introduced by him in the Senate back in 1920, FOR Soviet Russia. He told how he spoke FOR Soviet Russia at large public meetings together with Comrade Martens. He says he is a

"liberal". FOR an alliance of the United States plus Russia plus Germany, in order to save the world from the imperialism of Japan, England, etc., etc.

He says he came to see Russia and refute the lies about her.

He also says, incidentally, there is one small matter. We have Harrison (she) in prison for espionage. He thinks she is guilty, she really did spy. He believes she is being tortured by us, etc.

But he is a senator from the state of Maryland. He wants to be re-elected (elections are next year). All his enemies shout: "and our Harrison" (she is from the same state) and her cousin (brother-in-law) is the governor

of the state of Maryland. If she suddenly dies, everyone will say: "our Harrison" was killed in Russia.

He is not asking for her release: he is asking us to think whether something can be done.

I promised to give him an answer on Monday (he wants to leave on Tuesday) through Comrade Chicherin.

I request Comrade Unshlikht to give his opinion and Comrade Chicherin's conclusion by Sunday, and Comrade

Chicherin to telephone me on Sunday evening about his, Chicherin's, opinion. 42

Lenin