Comrade Molotov (regarding Chicherin's communication about the declaration proposed by Lloyd George)

I think that not only should we not hurry, but that generally the conditions are absolutely unacceptable. Notify

* A word missing in the recording has been inserted, necessary for sense. Ed.

Krasin about this strictly secretly, or do not notify at all, and wait for the conference, where we will make a concrete statement 187.

Lenin

Dictated over the phone

3 January 1922

First published,

from a typewritten copy