ABSTRACT

Comrade Stalin recommends that we now merge the Council of Labour and Defence, the Collegium of Assistant Heads and the Financial Committee. This proposal, irrespective of its immediate practical value, is in any case a token of the inexpediency of having a self-contained Collegium of Assistant Heads and a self-contained Financial Committee. When I first put forward my recommendation for having a co-ordinating economic organ in Gosplan I was, of course, unable to evaluate Comrade Stalin’s proposal since this was submitted two years later than my proposal. Moreover Comrade Stalin’s exceptionally important proposal, as regards its substance, for the reorganisation of the central organs is being put forward by Comrade Stalin inter alia as a criticism of my repeated proposals.