Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-29
ANTLbOL LSHEVSTS
SPURN RED PARLEY
Nc. Sack Says. They viii Not
Meet at Table With Rus
sian Traitors.

| Declination Of all Russian factions
| but the bolsheviki to meet with al
! lied representatives in a conference
at the Princes Islands. February .15,
! is foreshadowed in a statement is.
| sued today by A. J. Sack. director OF
| the Russian information service in
| the United States.
THE anti-bolsheyist factions re-
| pudiate the allied proposal for three
| reasons" Mr.. Sack stated.
| Further confirmation that all the
| factions opposing the bolsheyiki
| would refuse the invitation is con-
| tanned in unofficial dispatches stating
! that the Archangel. or north Russian
! government had decided to reject the
| proposals. The Archangel governmen,
| has been in agreement with the Kol-
chalk government at Omsk, and the
Russia
In Embarrassing Position.
Hence it now seems that the allies
and the United States will be put in
the embarrassing position of meetine
only the bolsheviki, should Lenin
and Trotsky accept, and should the ar
rangements proceed on that basis.
The principal fear now is that the
| do so they will place the peace con-
ferees in the predicament of confer
ring with the one element which all
agree must be suppressed, or by de-
| clining and giving the bolsheviki the
argument that they offered to treat
| on peaceful terms and were refused
| Mr.. Sack does not give the authority
| for his statement that the anti
| bolsheviki factions will not attend
the meeting. He works in accord
with the embassy here, and has been
bolshevik factions in Russia, includ-
| ing the north Russia, south Russia
| and Siberian groups.
| His three reasons for the refusal OF
the anti-bolshevist factions follow;
They do not want to meet the
| bolsheviki at the table, considering
| them traitors to Russia and human
| ity, murderers of their own brothers,
| criminals who are able to under
| stand only one language, the Ian
! guage of physical force.
Do Not Understand Proposal.
"They do not understand how the al
| lies find it possible to place them (the
| people of Russia). who have sacrificed
| millions of their best youth for the al
| lied cause, on equal footing with the
| bolsheviki. who have betrayed Russia
| and the allied cause. ill-treated the al
! lied diplomatic representatives and in
| stituted such a terror that President
| Wilson considered it a duty in Sep
/ ttember, 1913, to ask all the civilized
nations throughout the world to join
| in protest against the horrors of the
| bolsheviki regime.
"The anti-bolshevik factions repre-
senting the Russian people consider
| II incompatible with the dignity of
I Russia to meet the allied representa-
t tives somewhere in the Princes Is
lands. Russia is entitled to full rep
| resentation in Paris"
| Mr. Sack stated that cit is most de-
plorable that Russia's friends should
/ undertake an important decision with
| regard to Russia without consulting
| the leaders of the Russian people
] He said the Russian policy came to
the allies evidently as an "inspira- :
tion" and that the allies apparently
! had not considered the grim realities
of Russian life" He terms the policy
"a great disappointment to all Rus
sian patriots and democrats"
Populations Represented.
| : Mr.. Sack estimates the bolshevik con-
/ troll to extend over part of central
| as compared with about 120, ,0Oo, 900 con-
| trolled by the anti-bolshevik govern
ments.
1.-THE cars regime" he stated,
dreadful as it was, may compare with
] the bolsheviki tyranny. Under the
| cars regime there was liberal and
| from time to time even a socialist press
| in existence. Fundamental human rights,
/ the lives OF women and children, were
| to q certain extent respected. Under
the bolshevik rule all civil liberties have