The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-12-27
NORGE: E:NTHAUF FOR
TRADE WITH
RUSSIA
Would Use Recognition of
Soviet Republic Conting-
ent on "Saving" of Ar
.menia, Says Statement.

washington, Dec, 27.- Recogni
tion Of Soviet Russia is urged by
Henry G. Morgcnthau, personal rep
rcsentatiyc Of President Wilson i'll
the proposed mediation To save Ar
menia
And President Wilson also con
templates recognition Of the Soviet
government BY European powers as
the only means Of carrying out the
Armenian project, according to a
further strange contention by Nor
geAthau.
Discussing at Atlantic City the
Armenian task intlnsted to himself
by the president. Morgenthau used
the following language:
lt appears to be time that the
American cople are made to UNDER
stand just how much depends on the
willingness OF the allies to deal with
the people who surround the Arme-
nians-the Turkish nationalists and
the Reds OF Russia. Up to the pres
ent time they have recognized
neither. Should England, France or
Italy decide to recognize the Soyiets
they could easily make the saving OF
Armenia a condition land unless they
lind some means OF dealing with
these representatives now outside the
diplomatic pale the best efforts
known toward saving Armenia are
likely TO fail. This I be
lleye2 is exactly what President Will
son meant when he distinctly stated
| that his acceptance Ut tic task of me
diatiOn between the Armonians and
their enemies rested upon the moral
and diplomatic support of the VIC
torious powers"
The state department declines to
state whether MT. Morgenthau spoke
with the authority OF the president,
but it is generally conceded that it
hc did not have such authority he
committed Il gross "hetrayal' of the
chief executive by thus debating the
terms under which hc would fulfill q
task already accepted.
And ii Mr., Morgenthuu' policy is
accepted it means that the Wilson
administration has gulpcd its spleen
and wants to negotiate with the Mos
COW government, which was again
"outlaWcd" as recently as last week,
when the labor department ordered
the deportation oil L. G. A. *. Mar
tens, representative of the Soviet
government.
From still closer to the president
comes the declaration OF William G.
McAdoo advocating trade with Rus
sia. McAdoo remained silent during
the period when his statement might
have influenced the proceedings
against Martens, but simultaneously
with the ending of the blockade by
the treasury and federal reserve
board Officers, McAdoo says:
II havo long been convinced that
VIC ought to establish trade relations
with Russia. 1t is not necessary to
recognize the Soviet government to
do this. Why should we refuse to
let people in distress, in Russia or
elsewhere, buy our products il they
can pay for them, no matter what
form OF government thcy may choose
fol themselves?
We have always stood for the
right of people to determine their
own form OF government, and must
sd ythat | have never been able to
say that / have never been able 10
must not trade with the Russian peo-
pie because we do not like or rec
ognizc their existing government
The opening OF trade with Russia
aud | am sure that it can be accom-
pl.shed under conditions that will
reasonably protect our cctizens-
would be very helpful to our business
situation"
In that language the presidents S
own son-in-laW scornS and repudiates
the official propaganda. slanderng
Soviet Russia as too vile to touch
which the White oHuse has employed
to deceive the American people for
three years past.