Date: 1922-05-08
Source: ru:PSS/v45

TELEGRAM TO M. M. LITVINOV
It would seem to us that the general unacceptability of the latest memorandum issued by the great powers provides a suitable pretext for rupture; however, if you do not share this view, we, believing that rupture is already a foregone conclusion, agree to leave it to your discretion to determine the most opportune moment for severing relations.
Written on May 8, 1922.

First published from a typewritten copy.