V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v53;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

11/VIII.

Comrade Molotov,

It is absolutely necessary to appoint a special commission from the Political Bureau:
Kamenev,
Trotsky,
Molotov (with the right to have him replaced by Chicherin)
for the daily settlement of questions connected with aid to the famine-stricken from America* and the League of Nations.

An extremely complicated game is going on here. The meanness of America, Hoover and the Council of the League of Nations is doubly great.

Hoover must be punished, publicly slapped in the face, so that the whole world may see it, and the Council of the League of Nations too.

This is very difficult to do, but it must be done.

I am unable to work. Trotsky’s help is absolutely essential; he has a capacity for such things (both diplomatic experience and a military and political flair).