In cipher!

To Radek. Bukharin. Berlin.

Received the minutes. Both of Radek's speeches are very good. Tomorrow the Executive Committee will officially ratify the agreement. We propose to raise immediately in the Commission of Nine the question of the progress of the negotiations in Genoa. It has been proved that a rupture every minute can occur because of the question of disarmament and because of the Entente's demand for recognition of the private debts of the big foreign capitalists. Point out that the disarmament demand belongs to the demands of 2 and 2 1/2. If they delay for twenty-four hours, issue the Executive Committee's manifesto yourself, call on all workers to protest. In particular, advise the French Communists to wage an intensified campaign against Bartoux, Poincaré. The proposal to give1* the finger to Vandervelde we consider wrong, so far you have given the finger to him.

Zinoviev.

Lenin.

Trotsky.

Stalin.

Kamenev.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 25669, fol. 1-2 - autograph of G.E.Zinoviev.

1* So in the manuscript. It is correct, apparently, "to take".

1 The telegram refers to the receipt from K.B.Radek of the minutes of the meeting of representatives of the II, II 1/2 and III Internationals, held in Berlin from April 2 to 5, 1922. At the meeting a general declaration was adopted, which recognized the possibility of holding joint meetings and common speeches for the 8-hour working day, against the onslaught of capital, in defense of the Russian revolution, to help the starving of Russia, for the resumption of political and economic relations of all states with Soviet Russia, for the creation of a united proletarian front.

The Declaration (agreement) of the representatives of the three Internationals was ratified at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Comintern on April 20.

About this meeting see Lenin's article "We have paid too dearly", published in the newspapers "Pravda" and "Izvestiya VTsIK" on April 11, 1922 with the consent of the members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) of April 10 (see: Lenin V.I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 45, pp. 140-144).