The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-11-10
RUSSIAN PEOPLE
WILSON'S HOPE
Presidents Stand May Not
Prevent DiscOntinuance
of Financial Aid.
DEBACLE Is CONFIRMED
L. S. Minister at Stockholm
Sends Cable Report on
kerensky Collapse.
Special Despdtch 70 Tur Srv

Special Despafch TO THE srv.
WAsHING3oN. Nov. 9.-Presidant Will
sons faith in Russia apparently has not
been shaken by the coup d'etat of the
Maximalists. This was intimated to-day
following Cabinet meeting at which
the Russian situation was discussed
The President is understood to be con-
WINGED that the assumption Of power by
the extremists of the Leon Trotzky and
Nikolai Lenine type is only flash and
| can have no lasting effect on the Russian
peoples political struggle for stabilized
. democracy.
! Great Significance was attached 70 the
following statement made by Secretary
Baker upon his return from the Cabinet
! meeting:
| II am great believer in the ability of
Russia to ind herself and to reestablish
law and order. II there is any lesson to
be gained from history it is that great
people like the Russians find that liberty
and order go hand in hand The Rus
SLAMS being great people whatever
their present difficulties. soon will sta
bllize their government and their llber-
ties in nrm and orderly way"
May CurtniI assistance.
Mr.. Baker declined to make any COM
ment on the purely military aspect of the
situation This may mean that the
President. while extending all moral sup
port TO Russia in her hour Of distress.
will be forced to curtai financial and
military aid II this retards the joint ef-
forts of the United States and the
Entente in prosecuting the war against
: Germany
| Officials OF the State Department ex-
I ID a ri "a n
Ruseia's military supplies from the
United States had resulted from the de-
cision of the priority committee to give
the warning nations first call Oh these
supplies.
The frst official confirmation OF the
/ Russian debacle reached the State De-
| partment to-day in a despatch from Min
| lister Morris at Stockholm This des-
patch confirmed press reports that
Kerensky's Governmept had collapsed
and that the Maximalists had seized the
Government in Petrograd.
! Late News DiscOuraRinH.
| Latest news. az contained in cable
! advices to the press. continued to be
interpreted as dscouraging, The most
: serious advices were those reporting the
/ northern armies having adopted the pro-
gramme OF immediate peace advocated
by Trotzky and Lenine
| In Entente diplomatic circles this news
! has been less of "A shock than IN the
( case of American Government officials.
! The British Foreign ONCE for the past
| six weeks has been getting limitations
I that the situation in Russia was going
rapidly from bad to worse. British and
/ French military experts freely have said
! that Russia was practically out Of the
war so far as immediate military con-
siderations were concerned. In Italian
/ quarters this idea likewise has been
| emphasized.
ports from American official and semi
official sources filtered into the State
Department here.
Rus~ian Embassy silent.
In the absence OF official information
, the Russian Embassy to-day refused
I further to discuss the situation in petro-
grad. The Bolshevik Government has
not been recognized as at the head of
! governmental affairs In the republic by
the Russian diplomats In Washington
nor will 1t be until complete report OF
the changes undertaken by the revolters
has been received here.
, 1--WE have assumed no attitude what
soever with regard to the new Govern
ment at Petrograd," was the announce
! ment of an embassy official speaking for
fAmba ssador Rakhmetcff in his absence
| 1--WE are not able to define our policy
until we know what the policy of the
new Government is or whether or not
the Government at Petrograd. apparently
overthrown, has ceased also to he the
Government of Russia as well az the
power In Petrograd'