V. I.

Lenin

642

To:   V. M. MOLOTOV FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

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Comrade Molotov

Please show this letter to all members of the Politbureau
and return it to me with their remarks. I think Chicherin
is quite right that Radek has given fresh proof in this case
that, for all his numerous merits, he is absolutely unfit
to be a diplomatist. [1]

Lenin

20/II.22.

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Notes:
[1]
This is written on G. V. Chicherin’s letter of February 18, 1922, saying that K. B. Radek, in an interview published in She

French bourgeois newspaper Le Matin , described the negotiations with the French Government, and in so doing made some attacks against Britain. Chicherin believed this was premature and said that Radek’s interview had done Soviet Russia diplomatic harm.

On the letter are remarks by members of the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C., expressing agreement with Lenin’s opinion.