The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-11-06
Their Declared Purpose Is
to Spread Revolution
Through World
STATE DEPARTMENT
REFUSES THEM FOOD
Will Not Support That Form of Gov
Observation-Disclosures Take Lion S
Share of Available Food-No Feast
BILE Way to Help Innocent.


5 WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-The Rus
sian ,Bolsheviki have awaited them
selves of every opportunity to initiate I
in the United States propaganda
aimed to bring about the forcible ov-
erthrow of our present form of govern |
ment,o Chairman Wadsworth of the |
senate military committee has been in
formed by assistant Secretary Phillips
in letter made public at the state
department..
Mr.. Phillips wrote in reply to Sen
ator Wadswerth, who had asked why
the administration had adopted pol
icy of intercourse with that part
of Russia controlled by the Bolsheviki.
His letter follows:
In reply to your letter of Oct 20,
1919, concerning the so-called blockade
of Petrograd, beg to inform you that
SO far as the United States is con
cerned, no blockade exists 1t is the
present policy of this government, how
ever, to refuse export licenses for ship
ments to Russian territory under Boil
shevist control and to refuse clearance
| papers to American vessels seeking to
| depart for Petrograd, the only remain
ing Bolshevist port. As you are aware
these measures can not be continued
after the ratification of peace unless
there is new legislation.
- The policy of non-intercourse with
territory under Bolshevist control is
based chiefly on two considerations. 1t
is the declared purpose of the Bolshe-
wiki in Russia to carry revolution
throughout the world. They have
awaited themselves of every opportu-
nifty to initiate in the United States a
| propaganda aimed to bring about the
forcible overthrow of our present form
of government.
"They have at their disposition in
Russia a large quantity of gold. being
partly reserve of gold belonging to
the Rumanian government which was
| stored in Moscow for safe keeping at
| the time of the German advance into
| Rumania.- ItriS considered important
that the Bolsheviki should not be Civ
en- the means through commercial
transaction to bring this gold into the
United States where it could be used to
sustain their propaganda of violence
and unreason.
The second consideration related
to the control which the Bolsheviki ex
ercise over the distribution of neees
sites. All foreign trade has been ma
tionalized. This means that there car
! be no dealingI except with the Bolshc
visit authorities Moreover. since thu
fall of 1918 the Bolshcviki have main
tanned q system of discrimination in
he distribution Of food. The popula
! ton is divided into categories along oe
cupational and class lines, and receives
food, so far as food may be available
, n accordance with a scale which is ad
usted with view to the maintenance
cf the Bolsheviki in power and the full
filment of their program for the extinc
ton of the middle classes.
, 1.-The ration given to members of tn,
{ Red army is estimated in the oificia
2 Bolshevist gazette of Feb. 6. 1919, I,
, be three times the average for the sew
: eral categorics of the civil population
1t has seemed altogether inadmissibl
that food and other necessities o
American origin should be allowed