Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-11
PRESIDENT WILSON'S POLICY
TOWARD SOVIET RUSSIA
ANNOUNCED.
FoRBIDs RECOGNITION
OF BOLSHEVIK RULE
Reds Held to Have No Honor and
Their Ideas Anarchistio - Terri
toriai Integrity of Polish Republic
Must Be Maintained--Not to Par
ticipate in Armistice Negotiations.
By Associated Press,

independence and territorial integrity
OF Poland and against any dismem-
berment Of Russia.
In note addressed to the Italian
ambassador. Secretary. Colby, speak
ing with the approval and consent of
President Wilson, said the United
States took no exception TO the eff
forts to arrange an armistice be-
tween Poland and Russia" and would
regard with satisfaction" a declara-
ton by the allied and associated
powers that the territorial integrity
and true boundaries" Of Russia
would 'be respected.
The government fatty Stated, how
ever that it would not, at least for
the present participate in any plan
for the expansion Of the armistice
negotiations into general Euro
pean conference because it would in
all probability involve two results
from which the United States
strongly recoils.'
THE recognition Of the Bolshevtst
regime.
a settlement Of Russian problems
almost inevitably upon that basis of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF Russia
Y. S. Secrets Disclosed.
Tue note was in response to an
Agreeable intimation'' from the
Italian ambassador that his govern
ment would welcome a statement of
the views Of the American govern
ment of tho Polish situation. Much
Of it was devoted to statement Of
the sympathetic feeling of the United
States toward the Russian people.
In reviewing past events as evil
dence of this sympathy, the secretary
of state disclosed some hitherto Dip
lomatic secrets.
Mr.. Colby revealed that the Ameri-
can government had withheld It's .ip-
prevail from the decision of the su-
preme council at Paris recognizing
the independence of the o-caliei
republics" of Georgia and Azerbaijan
because part of them We're carved out
of the old Russian empire.
It also was stated that the United
States had taken the position that
the final determination of the boun-
daries of Armenia which the prcsf-
dent has been asked by the, allies to
fix, must not be made without Rus
sia's cooperation and agreement"
1t was further disclosed that the
United States had persistently re-
fused to recognize the Baltic states
with the exception Of Finland, a once
independent nation. because it held
that they were rightly part OF Rus
sia and that the territory embraced
in them should be held for the Rus
sian people until they should have
organized stable government.
I'VE are unwilling the note de-
clared, that, while it is helpless In
the grip off nonrepresentative gov
eminent whose only sanction is pru-
tai force, Russia shall be weakened
still further by a policy of dismem-
berment, conceived in other than
Russian interests"
Will Never Recognize Reds.
President Wilson scored the soviet
government in the following words:
1T is unable to perceive, however,
that recognition Of the soviet re-
gime would promote, much less ac-
complish, this object, and it is there
fore averse to any dealings with the
soviet regime beyond the most mar
row boundaries to which discussion
OF an armistice can be confined.
THAT the present rulers of Russia
do not rule by the will or the consent
of any considerable proportion of the
Russian people is an incontestible
fact.
"Altho nearly two and a half years
have passed since they seized the ma
chinery of government, promising to
protect the constituent assembly
against alleged conspiracies against
lit. they have notyet permitted any
thing in the nature of a popular cleo
ton.
AT the moment when the work of
creating a popular representative
government, based upon universal
suffrage, was nearing completion the
bolsheviki, altho In number an incon-
siderable minority Of the people, by
force and cunning seized the powers
and machinery of government and
lttSC SouCllAucu " use lil5Iu~ Will
savage oppression to maintain them
selves in power.
"No Desire to MeddIe."
without any desire to interfere
in the internal affairs of the Russian
people or to suggest what kind of
government they should have, the
government Of the United States does
express the hope that they soon will
find a way to set up a government
representing their free will and pur-
pose.
when that time comes the United
States will consider the measures of
practical assistance which can be
taken to promote the restoration of
Russia, provided Russia has not
taken itself wholly out of the pale
of the friendly interest of other ma
tons by the pillage and oppression
of the Poles.
cit is not possible for the govern
ment OF the United States to recog-
nize the present rulers, Of Russia as
a government with which the rela-
tons common, to friendly govern
ments can be maintained. This con-
viction has nothing to do with any
particular political or social struc-
ture which the Russian people them