Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...official decision gives the reason: "The Soviet Government conducts a propaganda in the United States for the purpose of creating an insurrection to overthrow the Government of the United States by force and violence. It is further shown that Lenine has proposed to withdraw the propaganda in return for political and commercial recognition and intercourse between Russia and the United States." Would any nation stoop to such terms? In such a case does money or commercial privilege signify anything...
...Vanderlip and his kind are doubtless sincere in believing that this country should accept the opportunity to enrich itself if it can. But any further talk in this vein is entirely out of place. When "Ambassador" Martens sails for Russia this country will have done completely with the present Soviet type of government...
...doubt the call for resumption of trade with Russia will be heard louder than over in the United States, since Great Britain has completed arrangements with the Soviet Government concerning mutual commercial interests. Enthusiastic publicity agents like Washington D. Vanderlip, no matter how unreliable, always inspire further efforts in souring seemingly valuable foreign markets. Yet it is well to think twice before venturing into any sort of commercial relations with the present Russia. The question with the United States is wholly economic, which is unlike England's case, if we are to believe the report that Great Britain enters into...
...should enter into relations with a moneyless, creditless country, whose government has almost nothing to offer for the guarantees which would come from us. Can we believe that the economic advantages of trade with Russia are so great that we should rid ourselves of all aversion to Soviet ideas and enter into an agreement--which involves recognition--for the sake of a gain as uncertain at bottom as Bolshevist Russia itself...
...dispatches to this country, it appears that a trade agreement is about to be negotiated between England and Russia. It is well known how necessary is Russia's trade for the economic rehabilitation of all Europe, and how much Russia's pauperism has played into the hands of the Soviet faction. A starving, naked people prove easy meat for skilful agitators working for their own ends. Trade must be re-established between Russia and the rest of Europe, and the Russian peasant must obtain food, boots, shoes, clothes, agricultural implements, and tools of all kinds in exchange for his product...