Concurrent with my telegram of 21 January, supplemented by another the next day, M.M. sent his own telegram advising Moscow to send a special delegation to the funeral consisting of himself and someone from the top ranks of the Red Army. We had had the same thought. As a result, the Central Executive Committee will be represented at the funeral by a delegation of three: Litvinov, Tukhachevsky and myself. Tukhachevsky and Putna, who arrived in Moscow only recently, will be in London tomorrow.

Agniya is very busy with the wreath we shall lay on the king’s coffin. The wreath is very fine: white lilies and lilies of the valley, with red orchids in the centre. The black-and-red ribbon bears the inscription: ‘From the Central Executive Committee of the USSR’. The papers have noted both the beauty of the wreath and the very fact of its laying.

M.M. is bright and full of life. He has just won a brilliant victory in Geneva on the question of the severance of relations with Uruguay. Gershelman and Petrov are accompanying him. M.M. will spend about four days in London.