New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-20
RUSSELL ASSAILS
DIPLOMATS AID
Newspaper Correspondent
Tells of Refusal Of
Help in Paris.
,SSERTS WILSON
IS OVERSENSITIVE
sorialist PenaIized Abroad
for CriticiSing Act of
Administration.

r,,les Edward Russell, whose
49,, that A censorship on ms news
S'-.,ehes had ben established BY Rob
Woods Bliss. charge d'afsires AT
=, United States Embassy in Paris.
=. recently brought UP in Congress,
"a YESTERDAY q the refusal Of the
.-h.s,v % aid him 7 reaching the
s,i,i,n front Nr Russell, who has
80 times been Socialist candidate
.. Governor Of New York, arrived
y,,Ssy on the Lafayette.
For some time he has ben the repre-
..,,,.ive OF an American newspaper
.~,sies,e in France. The action OF Mr..
pa, in the absence Of Ambassador
S,,rp. he said was the result Of the
zion OF the charge d'afaires that
Rs,sen. II cr,ticising the principl- $ in
,,'vsd IN the birthday congratulations
p-ss;Ssnt Wilson sent 20 Emperor
-, Toss,b had criticised his coun-
Hs-'
IT'S fIes'le''''
4 wanted 20 20 20 Fuornes, a town
,sr,h Of Calais. inside the Belgian
Ines and sppled for permission 70 the
Belgian Legation. vas referred 70
q, American Embassy and told that it
Sas eusiomar: TO present letter OF
e'''-'s'.''
DAVID l. PATTERSON inc representative
nfa Pittsburgh paper. I called on Mr..
r.. ana ,,orrir- and e,,i;s5 fo- ~,
D''''
Letter as CORES p'hoehl LOT my SyndI-
a,s. The charge told both OF US that
- .oc,s call FOR -He letters ~ 1 that
'-'-
E'srnoon'
On the morning on which Mr.. Russell
,.,rss Gov his let.e- of ce-+iecs.io,
ST.
rsTe nad oeen printed IN Inc Faris
Herald 3 letter written by him IN
v,,,h ne EXPRESSED his Measure IN the
-.
's' 'Ns' 20 man! americans had pro
tested agains, Nh Wilson's most
strange and grotesGue felicitati0ns Of
TIE Austrian Emperor who. ne said,
stood for an altocracy that was in alb
to.uts opposition 90 all American ideals
ard Institutions.
The letter was not written IN Mr..
huwel.s capacity as newspaper rep
rssentstivc o-- as a nersonal nrotest.
Russell Fails TO Get Letter.
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Is there any difference between ne
c-.,ieiSs a. sct ~ .5s P-csiJaTtSS NJ "
lrsssU sssed
Put i that wav = Won war. N -
zss tbs charges reDlv
NJ RUSSELL the, 7aid he rad s1xavs
ssisvsd .nat an Ambassador was the
servant Of the people OF his country
az v,s borrd ~ 1-o+ac- iran, and
,i,,be did NOT think freedom al sneech
ssosld 10 sboIisbed sinplv because the
rsss If cite, did not ban1en "a
ssneids win Hose ~ me President.
n Won pet mo trouble the embassy
I'll protect YOU but In n. present
,rrunstarces I cannot help YOU" was
" Bliss answer.
Then followed a heated colloquy. in
vses NJ pueselI asEed = tbere vas
lsy.hing In he Constitution or statutes
,-ich forbade criticism OF an act OF
re Prssiss-- which was met bv the
mark -5s- The statutes did not re-
t.irs ,bst me Ambassador should issue
.ts le.-s- -eouas-ed Mr. Bliss then
,fssertsd --o corresnondert with let
=, h ~, ~ e,-1ressad his nsrso1al