Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-11

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 "The policy herein outlined will command the support of this govern ment.
 Accept, excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consider ation.
 (Signed) "Brainbrige Colby"
 While deeply regretting the with drawal of Russia from the war at critical time, and the disastrous surrender at Brest-Litovsk, the Unit ed States has fully understood that the people of Russia were in no wise responsible.
 "The United States maintains un- impaired it sfaith in the Russian peo- pie, in their high character and their future. That they will overcome the existing anarchy, suffering and desti- tutlon, we do not entertain the slight est doubt. The distressing character of Russia's transition has many his- torical parallels and the United States is confident that restored, free and united, Russia will again take lead ing place in the world, joining with the other nations in upholding peace and orderly justice.
 Until that time shall arrive, the United States feels that friendship and honor require that Russia's in- terests must be generously protect ed, and that, as far as possible, all decisions of vital importance to it. and especially those concerning it's sovereignty over the territory of the former Russian empire, be held in abeyance. By this feeling of friend ship and honorable obligation to the great nation whose brave and heroic self sacrifice contributed so much to the successful termination of the war, the government of the United States was guided in it's reply to the Lithuanian national council, on Oc- tober 15, 1919, and in it's persistent refusal to recognize the Baltic states as separate nations independent of Russia. The same spirit was mani fested in the note of this govern ment, of March "A, 1920, in which it was stated, with reference to certain proposed settlement in the near east that mo final decision should or can be made without the consent of Rus sia.'
 Policy Consistent.
 "1n line with these important dec larations of policy, the United States withheld it's approval from the decis- ion of the supreme council at Paris recognizing the independence of the so-called republics of Georgia and Azebaijan and so instructed it's rep resentative in southern Russia, Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully. Finally. while gladly giving recognition to the independence of Armenia the govern ment of the United States has taken the position that the final determi- nation of it's boundaries must not be made without Russia's cooperation and agreement. Not only is Russia concerned because a considerable part of the territory of the new state of Armenia, when it shall be defined formerly belonged to the Russian em- pire; equally important is the fact that Armenia must have the good will and the protective friendship of Rus sia if it is to remain independent and free.
 "These illustrations show with what consistency the government of the United States has been guided in it's foreign policy by loyal friend ship for Russia. We are unwilling that, while it is helpless in the grip of non-representative government whose only sanction is brutal force Russia shalA be weakened still fur ther by policy of dismemberment conceived in other than Russian in- terests.
 "With the desire of the allied pow CTS to bring about peaceful solu- ,tion of the existing difficulties in Europe, this government is, of course, in hearty accord, and will support any justifiable steps to that end. It l is unable to perceive, however, that recognition of the soviet regime would promote, much less accom- plish this object, and it is therefore 1 adverse to any dealings with the so- viet regime beyond the most narrow boundaries to which discussion of l an armistice can be confined.
 Can't Recognize Now.
 "That the present rulers of Rus sia do not rule by the will or the consent of any considerable propor- tion of the Russian people is an in- contestable fact. Although nearly II two and half years have passed since they seized the machinery of government, promising to protect the constituent assembly. against alleged conspiracies against it, they have moi yet permitted anything in the nature of a popular election. At the moment III when the work of creating a popular representative government based up on universal suffrage was nearing H completion, the bolsheviki although in number an inconsiderable minority of the people, by force and summing seized the powers of machinery of government and have continuel to use them with savage oppression to main- tain themselves in power.
 "Without any desire to interfere in the internal affairs of the Russian people, or to suggest what kind oflI they should have, the