487. NOTE TO P. P. GORBUNOV AND TELEGRAM TO L. B. KRASIN

Written on November 7, 1921 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Sent to London. Printed from the original. · page 371

Comrade Gorbunov:

Please send to Krasin in code.

Your dispatch of 1.XI is almost hysterical. You have forgotten that even you yourself had not proposed that we should give in to Leslie Urquhart right away, while the Politbureau decision is very well considered and is not a refusal. Concerning the Foundation Company full consent and an assignment to press on was sent you on 29.X. Steps should be taken to arrange for a much speedier exchange of telegrams between us: the apparatus of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade is generally rather had.

Lenin