55. To THE SECRETARY OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS

Written in March–April 1918 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original. · page 73

There are evidently persons sitting here who have been invited for a different question.

They need not be sent away.

But I reprimand you and the other secretaries; you have been told a hundred times that people are to be invited only for the question that concerns them.