Telegram to L.M. Kaganovich, V.M. Molotov, July 1, 1932

Source: Tom 17

Kaganovich, Molotov.

First. I have read the latest conversation with Lancaster. Lancaster's schemes are unacceptable. We can agree to the partial satisfaction of the claims of a private bank only on condition that we receive a large loan. This is our fundamental premise. Without such a combination, an agreement is out of the question. Therefore we must stand firmly on the basis of our scheme proposed to Lancaster on June 27. In the last resort, we can agree to increase our orders in America to 30 percent of the loan, and in the event of recognition of the USSR, to 35 percent.

Second. The center of the decisions at the conference of secretaries must be the organization of grain procurement with the mandatory fulfillment of the plan at 100 percent. The main blow must be directed against the Ukrainian demoralizers. Kaganovich should go to the Ukrainian conference as CC secretary and Molotov as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.

Third. Instruct the People's Commissariat of Agriculture or Gosplan to issue an official statement or interview to the effect that the harvest prospects are good and the harvest will be better than last year's. This will have an effect on Lancaster.

Stalin.

Source: Stalin i Kaganovich. Perepiska. 1931-1936 gg. [Stalin and Kaganovich. Correspondence. 1931-1936], p. 205.

RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 77, ll. 129-130.