The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-04
PRESIDENT MAY
RECOGNIZE kOLCHAk
Believed He Is Favorable to
Recommendations of
Ambassador Morris
FEARS GERMAN
ENCROACIIMENTS
German Reactionary Leaders Very
Active in Getting Control of Russia
President Well Informed Regard
ing Their Intrigues.


WASHINGTON, Sept president |
Wilson has under consideration the re- |
port and favorable recommendations
made by Roland S. Morris, American
ambassador to Japan, bearing on the |
status of the Russian government
of which Admiral Kolehak is the head
at 0msk, Siberia, and in which the rec
ognition of that government was rec
commended.
| Those who are eonversant with re-
cent developments have been unable to
conceal their belief that crucial point
| has been reached in the relations be-
| tween the allies and the anti -Bolshe-
visit Russian leaders where it is i'm
portant that the decision of this and
other governments on the point of rec
ignition must be made.
Reactionarv German leaders, among
them General Won der Goltz. whose ac-
Invites were again emphasized in a
special cabegram from Berlin, are very
active in an effort to obtain a grip on
| the Russian situation. The government
of Admiral Kolchak has refused to en-
ter into dealings with them, and it is
recognized that the secret order of Won
der Goltz to his troops to take service
in anti-Red Russian forces is part of a
reactionary German intrigue to upset
the relations between the allied pow
ers and Admiral kolchak and the lat
ter s associates.
President Wilson has been fully
aware of the intrigues and activities of
the Germans in their attitude toward
Russia and has dealt with them point
edly in several of his noteworthy
speeches delivered in 1918. In his
speech in New York on May IS of that
year, opening the campaign for the
second Red Cross fund, he recognized
the Importance of meeting the German
menace to both France and Russia
1--WE are not to be diverted from the
grim purpose of winning the war by
any insincere approaches upon the sub
jeet of peace the President said. II
can say with a clear conscience that |
ihave tested these intimatons and have
found them insincere. | now recognize
them for what they are, an opportunity
to have free hand, particularly in the
east, to carry out the purpose of con
quest and exploitation. Every propo
sal with regard to accommodation in
the west involves a reservation with
regard to the east. Now. so far as ]
am concerned, | intend to stand by
Russia as well as France
A month before, in his Baltimore
speech of April 6. 1918, he spoke of tn,
attitude of the Germans toward Russia
While German statesmen wer,
making fair professions, German mill
tary leaders, the men who act for Ger
many and exhibit her purpose in exc
cution, proclaimed very different sit
uation.'' he said. If when they hav
felt their check to be final they shoult
propose favorable and equitable term
with regard to Belgium and France an
Italy, could they blame us if we con
eluded that they did so only to assur
themselves of free hand in Russi
and the east!
"Their purpose is undoubtedly t
make all Slavak peoples subjec
to their will and ambition, and bull
upon that dominion an empire of fore
upon which they fancy they can cree
an empire of commercial supremacy
an empire as hostile to America as I
European empire which will ult
mately master Persia, India. and tt
peoples of the far east