July 16, 1927

July 16, 1926 [Error: should be 1927. — Ed.].

To Molotov.

1) We will talk about China when I arrive. You did not understand my letter. The letter says that one cannot consider an interval excluded, but this does not yet mean that one can consider a new upsurge in the nearest period excluded. In short, we will talk when I arrive. You have decided, it turns out, to circulate to members and candidates of the CC and CCC the documents of the opposition. But what are you counterposing from your side to these documents? Surely not just Bukharin's latest article? But it is, after all, completely insufficient! Circulating the documents in this way is disadvantageous.

2) Your haste regarding the formalization of diplomatic relations with Chiang Kai-shek makes a bad impression. What is this — a curtsy to Chamberlain, or something else of the sort? Where does such haste come from?

3) I will be in Moscow on Saturday the 23rd, in the morning. I wanted to postpone for another two days, but the weather here is starting to turn bad.

Regards.

Stalin.

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Source: Letters of J.V. Stalin to V.M. Molotov. 1925–1936. P. 117.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 1. D. 5388.