Comrade Chicherin!
1. If possible, I request that you send me the official text of Bonomi’s proposals in the very language in which you received them (the wording of the specific terms he outlined is of particular importance to me) 157.
2. Has any influential Entente newspaper ever published that particular clause of these conditions—namely, the one that was originally printed in our own newspapers, which read: “the system of property,” rather than simply “the system,” as it appears, according to the official text sent by Bonomi 158?
If feasible, I would be grateful if you could instruct Inoroste to verify whether the phrase “the system of property” ever appeared in any foreign newspaper—and, if so, whether I might receive a copy of that issue.
Lenin
Dictated over the telephone on January 26, 1922.
First published in 1959 in Lenin Collection XXXVI.

Printed from the secretary’s record (a typewritten copy).