404. TELEGRAM TO N. N. NARIMANOV

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original. · page 310

Code
26/IX.1921.

Narimanov
Baku

Do not, by any means conclude any treaty with either the Germans or anybody else on foreign trade without the consent of the Regional Foreign Trade Administration or the sanction of the R.C.P. Central Committee. Cable receipt   and execution, and follow up with all details by loiter.

Lenin^[1]

Notes

[1] Then follows J. V. Stalin’s name written in Lenin’s hand.—Ed.