New-York tribune., 1921-03-23
Will Send Envoys :
To Seek Agreement
Reds Said To Be Shipping
Tons of Gold to u. S. for
resumption of Trade

LONDON, March % (By The Asso-
clated Press).-The Russian Soviet
government has appealed TO President
Harding and the American government
to resume trade relations with Russia,
says a wireless message from Moscow
to-day.
1he Soviet government proposes to
send delegation to the United States
to negotiate a trade agreement, the
message adds.
The appeal, which is made by the
All-Russian Central Executive Commit
tee, suggests that negotiations be be-
gun Immediately for resumption of
trade. 1t asserts that there has been
long-existing hope for friendly re-
lations with "the great northern re-
public" refers to "the hostility Of the
Democratic Administration, trusts that
the present government will "appre-
ciate the great advantages which would
ensue to both republics by the resump-
ton OF trade relations" and declares
that it is to the interests of both ma
tions to remove the wall which now
separates the two countries.
When many other states have con-
cluded treaties with Russia. the abb
sence Of normal relations with tho
United States, the appear says, appears
as strange phenomenon.
Dispatches from Stockholm state that
tons of gold are being shipped there
from Russia, and after being minted
are being sent to the United States to
start trade between America and Soviet
Russia.
Treaty Ratifications Announced
Another wireless message from Mos
COW announces the ratification by the
Soviet government of treaties with
Turkey, Persia and Bokhara, and also
signature of peace treaty with Po-
land and trade agreement with Great
Britain.
"Not all these treaties conform to
our DESIRES" says the message, "but
they are significant successes for the
Soviet and show the consolidation of
its power on the international front"
The Polish treaty, according to the
message, means cessation of external
war and certain diminishing of civil
war. provided Poland Loyalty carries
out its undertaking not to allow the
organizers Of counter revolutions ref
uge in Polish territory. 1t further
points out that the British agreement
means resumption of commercial and
other relations with the whole series
of bourgeois, states within the sphere
of British influence, and declares that
it is Indirect recognition Of the Soviet
by Great Britain and opens the door to
a similar agreement with the United
States
France Declared Isolated
China and Rumania have address ed
@ proposal to Russia to enter into peace
negotiations, continues the statement
thus France, and her cold, persistent
hatred of Soviet Russia, will remain
g solitary power keeping aloof from
Soviet Russia"
The message continues: RUSSIA s
isolation, which internal and external
enemies tried hard to achieve, has dis
appeared and o new power has ap-
peared in the arena of world poll
tics with which friends and enemies,
whether they like it or not, will have
to reckon"
No Change in Policy Indicated
WASHINGTON, March 22.-Confir-
nation of the Moscow wireless that
the Soviet government desires to send
a mission here to negotiate trade
agreement was lacking tonight. While
the American State Department and
the Department of Commerce are Civ
ing thorough study to the general
subject of exte nsion of American trade,
it is not believed that any noticeable
change in trade relations with Soviet
Russia will oe sanctioned as long as
the Lenine-Trotzky regime is supreme
there.
Whether Secretary of State Hughes
would officially receive Bolshevik rep
resentatives is matter of much specu-
lation here. During the Wilson Ad-
ministration the American Foreign Of
flee persistently declined to deal with
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, so-called
Soviet ambassador to the United States,
who made repeated efforts toward get
ting some definite commitment from