New Britain herald., 1918-12-12
DEMANDS DEFINITE STATEMENT OF ]. s.
 POLICY IN RUSSIA
Senator Johnson Asserts State Of War With Soviet Government Actually Exists Without
 Declaration

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 AMERICANS KILLED
 formation, Furnished By Greet
 Committee, Resulted in This Coun-
 try Refusing to Cooperate With
 Soviets-AEso Asks if |. s. Has Put
 Ban On Supplies For Russians.
 Washington, Dec. 12-SenatOr Johnson, of California, republican, in an address to the senate today, de- manded d definite statement of the American goVernment'st policy to- ward Russia. He declared a state of war with the Soviet government ac- tual1y exists without a formal declar- atlon of hOstilties and asking a long series of questions, introduced a reso- lution calling upon the state depart ment for all documents and informa- tlon regarding this nations course in Russia and upon the war department for statement of American troops in Russia and casualties among them.
 Wants to Know Facts.
 For the information of congress and the American people Senator Johnson said he wanted to know whether 1t is true that this govern ment never replied to a plea from the Russian Soviet government to help avert the shameful treaty of Brest', and whether the assistant secretary of state, speaking for the president,
 
 ing that to intervene in Siberia 'would be doing in the East exactly what the Germans were doing in the vest
 "Is it true,' the senator continued, that the Russian Soviet government offered, through it's highest economic council, program for making Amer ica the most favored nation in trade and commerce and involving the con- trol by the Allies of all those supplies most desired by the Central Empires?
 ''Is 1t true that representatives of the American Red Cross remained in Soviet Russia until October, in per feet safety and reasonable comfort even after we had intervened and American troops were fighting the soldiers of the Soviet government?
 Are Red Cross Supplies Shut Off?
 'Is it true that the department of state has refused to allow the Ameri- can Red Cross to ship supplies to Moscow and Petrograd for the relief of the returning Russian war prison CTS from Germany?
 ''Is 1t true that the American am bassador. and the British high com missioner in Russia recommended CO., operation with the Soviet government through the Am erican railroad mis- sion, that the Soviet government in vited this countrys operation and promised control of the Siberian rail way to be placed in the hands of this mission, and that these recommenda- tions were refused by the American government largely as a result of mis- information received through the Creel committee, supported by lead CTS and representatives of the old regime in Russia ?''
 Did Soviets Offer Cooperation? Senator Johnson asked also Wheth- CT it is true that 8, Russian speaking and experienced British high commits sioner, sent to Russia after the Bol- sheviki revolution reported as late as May , 1918, that the Soviet govern m ent had co-operated with the Allies, and that he believed that interven- tion in cooperation with the Soviet government was feasible, and wheth- CT the American government so de layed cooperation with the Kerensky governments plan to support the morale of the army and maintain that provisional government in power as to contribute largely to the over throw Of Kerensky and the success of the Bolsheviki revolution.
 All Questions Are Unanswered. The senate foreign relations com l mittee and the state department, Sen ator Johnson said, cannot or have not answered these questions.
 'I understand, full we'll" Senator Johnson continued, that the peculiar intolerance which has been fostered in the past few months, the state of mind deliberately cultivated which l has sought to bully and to terrorize l either mild objector or seeker for in l form ton will look askance at one so ! lost as to ask the facts concerning 1 Russia and our participation in it's affairs But these of us, who are neither Bolsheviki nor in sympathy 1 with Bolshevism. of course, would be 1 unfit to sit here If we feared to pur- 1 sue a legitimate inquiry
 RESIGNATION RUMORED. London, Dec 12.-The Daily Ex-