The Washington times., 1920-01-10
SOVIET ENVOY
SUBPOENAED
|. c. A. K. Martens Accepts
Service to Appear Before
Senators Monday.

the surveillance OF Department OF
Justice agents today despite the
fact that he has accepted service of
a subpoena to appear on Monday be.
fore the Senate committee which ID
TO Investigate Bolshevik propaganda
Officials OF the Department OF Justice
have promised to arrest Martens on
a deportation warrant as soon as his
testimony Is complete and they are
watching him lest he forget" to APP
pear at the committee meeting.
Ready To Testify.
Martens did not attempt to evade
service Of the subpoena, but stated
that he had been expecting Il, and
was anxious to testify and lay his
Case before the country. He was
served with a subpoena to appear be-
fore the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Monday morning by NJ p.
McInerney, employe of the United
States Senate, in his apartment, AZ, at
the Preston, I743 p street northwest.
early last night.
McInerney also served a subpoena
on Santeri Nuarteva. whom he
found in an apartment at the Lafay-
cite Hotel.
Neither Martens nor Nuorteva
seemed perturbed when they were
confronted by McInerney. Nuorteva,
ordered by Senator Moses of New
over the possibility of Martens be-
ing exposed to Department of Justice
agents.
The serving of the subpoenas was
eYdored by Senator Moses of New
Hampshire, chairman of the subcom-
mittee of the Foreign Relations Com
rnittee, designated to inquire into
Russian propaganda.
A subpoena was also Issued for
Gregory weinstein, chancellor of the
soviet bureau, who Is now held at
Ellis Island.
Martens late in the evening indi-
Gated that he would receive news
papermen at the Soviet headquarters
At the Lafayette today. He told Nc
Inerney that he would be on hand at
tbs Senate committee Monday. He
did not take the attitude that he had
been in hiding but rather that he
had been too busy to leave his apart
ment. His wife and little girl are
II was evident that the small
apartment ON the fourth floor Of an
Obscure part of the building had been
selected by Martens with an eye to
seclusion.
Mrs Martens, apparently, was
keeniy Interested but displayed no
apprehension. When her little
laughter showed childish curiosity in
The stranger, Mrs. Martens remarked
that II was time for the, little one to
be In bed. There were four other
men In tho apartment including
Nuorteva-
During his conversation Martens
said:
II do not want to impose myself
ON tho American government or on
the American people.
.If the United States does not want
any representative of Soviet Russia
to be present in this country I shall
be glad to leave. On the other hand,
I viii use every opportunity to dispel
existing isunderstandings."
Martens received the newspaper
men today at his headquarters
here, and denied that he has en-
gagged in any activities in this coun-
try which would make him subject to
deportation. as charged by the De-
partment of Justice.
Il belong to no societies in the
United States" said Martens. MY
activities in the United States have
been eI tirely friendly and along
commercial lines"
Poses fer Movies.
He then, in q formal statement
denied he has been hiding from Gov
ernment officials and said he came
: to Washington from New York two
weeks ago. returning to New York
10 visit his family at New Years.
my work in the United States has
strictly confined itself to be presenta-
tion of arguments in favor Of the
establi ahment of friendly relations
between the United States and Rus
sia," he said, "and there has been nc
interference whatsoever on my part.
in the internal affairs Of tho United
States.
Newspaper reports say that the
United States officials plan to take
action against me on the allegation
that ] am an enemy alien which II
true. are amusing. The United States
is not at war with Russia, and be-
ing Russian citizen 1 can not be
an enemy alien. I have documentary
evidence Of my Russian citizenship
'It Is clear now that the Russian
Soviet republicans been in existence
two years, and its strength and sta
bility has been gloriously demon
strated by the complete victory OF
the Russian workers forces over tn.
reactionary Czarist elements in Rus
sia. the world as a whole will find
Il possible and absolutely necessary
10 establish friendly relations with
Soviet Russia
Soviet Russia has no unfriehdly
designs on the United States. On tn,
contrary It sincerely wishes to dis
pei the clouds which prevent an un
derstanding at this time.
"We do not want to impose our
selves upon the American people. w,
only know that relations will be es
tablished sooner or later and IL m,
preserce is not desired in Americ,
somebody else will be the medium
received by the United States Gov
ernment for the establishment o.
such relations. IL can in any wa,
lay the foundations for these rela
tiops I shall have fulfilled my mis-
sion"