New-York tribune., 1920-09-18
Soviet Leader.
Assails Colby
Note ON Poland
Tchitcherin Asserts Ameri-
cam Secretary Displays
Lack of Information Re.
garding Russian Affairs
Sees Financiers' Hands
Domination of u. S. Groups
i'm Europe Declared Policy
i'm Antagonism to Reds


Finland and Armenia and other Sec
tions of Russia which have declared
their independence. which were made
in the course of Mr.. Colby's note of
August 10 to the Italian Ambassador
In Washington, are impossible to un-
derstand, and probably the result of
insufficient information as to the real
facts of national conditions in Eastern
Europe" says George Tchitcherin, Rus
sian Bolshevik Minister of Foreign At
fairs. NJ. Tchitcherin has addressed a
note to the Italian government and to
Soviet representatives abroad" in
which he answers some of the conclu-
sions reached by Mr.. Colby in dis
cussing Russian affairs.
The Foreign Minister'S communica-
tion was dated at Moscow, September
10, and has been published in The Lon
don Daily Herald, organ of labor.
Seeks Domination of Financiers
NJ. Tchitcherin says Mr.. Colby con-
siders the demand for independence of
Poland, Finland and Armenia legal,
saying they were annexed to Russia by
@oASe, 6iAQ tHdC tIieiT separation QOeS
not infringe upon Russia's territorial
rights. He asserts the Secretary holds
that other Oppressed nationalities of
Czarist Russia" were not annexed by
force, and that the desire for indie
per ~ of the Georgi n Azerbaijan.
Lithuanian, Latvian, Esthonian and
Ukrainian peoples, either in the form
Of complete independence or in fedora
tion with Russia, are illegal.
tTho nYcentippc o1jouoI hv nv
Colby" says the Foreign Minister, "un-
derline the more emphatically his ad-
herence to the territorial indivisibility
of the former Czarist empire, while
at the same time his frend.ness to-
ward Russia is conditioned upon the
fact that her gov' rrmeur shall not be
Soviet government. AS matter of
is q bourgeoise or capitalist govern
ment, and. in view of the present eco
omic unfication of the world, that
means a gof ,tnner$ con 1cctcd With the
interests of the worlds dominating
financial groups. Among these, as a
result of the World War, the most pow
erful are the North American financial
groups.
Soviet Policy Totally Different
"Mr. Colby's friendliness toward
Russia is, therefore, conditioned on
the stipulation that her regime should
be such one as would enable domina-
tion Of the North American financial
groups in Europe: In his desire to
he not only differs from Great Brit
aims policy, but rs engaged in an
actual struggle against it. Obviously,
the group he represents realizes that
other interests, namely British inter-
ests, have established themselves in
new states separated from Russia, and
Mr.. Colby sees no other way Of COM
batting them than to abolish the in
dependence of these States. Totally
different from both is the Soviet Rus
sian policy, which is a policy of COM
P,lete rrenunciation of any exploita-
Saon Of another people.
The system represented by the
SOVIET government, under which the
working masses, having removed ex-
plolters rom power, may determine
their own fate and govern themselves,
is the only existing defiance against
the domination of exploiters and in
terests of the leading groups of world
capital, foremost of all the American
groups, and this is an explanation as
to WHY Mr.. Colby displays such an i'm
placable hostility and hurls against
Soviet Russia such false accusations.
AssaiIs Calumnies Against Russia
"The Communist party provokes Mr..
Colby's violent hostility because the
Communist party is at the head of
the revolutionary movement of work
Ing classes in all countries. including
America. This worldwide struggle is
rooted in the actual conditions exist
ing in all countries, but Mr.. Colby at
tempts to explain it by attributing it
to propaganda by Russian Soviet
agents. This is not the first time
that we have seen attempts on the
part of American financial groups to
diseredit Soviet Russia by calumnies."
nj. Tchitcherin then refers to an al
legged forged document published in
America, which, he says, contained al
legged proof Of the Bolsheviki being
German agents"
"Calumny against Soviet Russia" he
continues. sis one Of the principal
means Of combating the movement of
WORKING masses in every country, in
c!ud'ng America. 1t is the duty of
SOVIET Russia's representatives abroad
70 make categorical protests against the
false accusations that the Soviet gov
erhment violates its promises and con-
eludes agreements with a view to trans
gressing them. The Soviet government
understands the revolutionary move
ment OF working masses in every conn
try is their own affair and their own
task. 1t maintains faithfully the prin-
cip!e that communism canont be inn
posed by force and that the fight of
communism must be carried ON by the
worhing masses themselves in every
country.
Friendly Relations Necessary
Seeing that in America and many
other countries the workers have not
conquered power and have not even
the conviction of the necessity of its
conquest, the Russian Soviet govern
nent considers it necessary to establish
and unflinchingiy maintain peaceful
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