Confidential

Copy to comrade Solts, Chairman of the CCC
Oct. 14, 1921.

Comrade Martens!

Having received your letter to Litvinov, I express extreme regret and indignation. As an official, I would, at the very least, declare to you a s t r i c t r e p r i m a n d with its entry into your personnel file.

Litvinov acted badly by employing a malicious-polemical expression about "Martens's friends."

This is bad. But there is no insult here yet.