The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-25
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1921
LATEST MISTAKE OF WILSON
 ADMINISTRATION

Congressmen are discussing with considerable indignation what they denounce as the latest mistake of the Wilson administration. This refers to the expulsion of Ambassador" Ludwig c. A. K Martens, Soviet Russia's official representative in the United States, who with his family and staff has shaken the dust of this country from his feet, and departed for Sweden, a more hospitable land to the Bolsheviki.
 The wrath of the senators and rep resentatives and their indignation against the Wilson administration has been caused, not so much be. cause Ambassador" Martens was fired" out of the United States, but because almost simultaneously with his departure from New York cable dispatches from London convened the interesting information that the Brit ish government was at that very mo- ment concluding reciprocal trade and political relations with the Soviet representative in London, Leonid Krassin.
 Martens came here in 1916 as the representative of a Russian steel factory and was commissioner to rep. resent the Soviet government in the United States in March, 1919. Since that date he maintained an elaborate office in New York, with a large staff of employees and attaches, and made tremendous efforts to get the United States to recognize the Lenin. Trotzky regime, all of which ended eventually in his deportation.
 It is reported here that the British were not entirely unpleased to have the United States expel Martens from the United States, and that per haps the Soviet envoy's departure was hastened by British intrigue.
 At any rate the British have profit ed enormously by the expulsion of Martens from the United States, be- cause when the Soviet envoy left our shores he announced that all contracts for American products des- tined for the Russian trade, made iu this country through his efforts, amounting to many millions of dol. lars, had been cancelled.
 That is where the shoe pinches. By Martens departure American bus. mess meu lose all the valuable con. tracts for Russian trade, and this has left considerable hostility in their minds against the Wilson policy re. garding Soviet Russia.
 But the thing that stings worse than the loss of the big Russian trade contracts is the knowledge that immediately after Marten was run out of the United States the British recognized the Soviet gov ernment through it's envoy Krassin, in London. There is more than a sus- picion in the minds of members of congress that British diplomacy had something to do with the object in view of having the American trade contracts cancelled, when those con tracts would of necessity fell to- British firms.
 It is not the first time where Great Britain has secretly fomented such schemes, and profited greatly thereby. Some congressman say it is a clear case of London outwitting the Wilson administration.
 In the arrangement with Krassin Great Britain recognized the Soviet government at Moscow. The princi- pal clauses of the agreement reached between the Bolsheviki agent and Downing street is of great import. ance to the British Empire The first of these Is that the Soviets agree not to propagandize against the British Empire or possessions anywhere In return the British will not oppose the Soviet government within it's own boundaries and in any territory under it's control. If this does not mean actual recognition of the Lenine- Trotzky government, what would?
 The British have lifted the block