New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-27
Senator France
Gets Home With
Plea for Russia
Mrs. Harrison, Released by
Reds in Accordance With
Relief Terms, Also Is an
Arrival on the Rotterdam
She Wants to Forget 1t
Legislator Urges Early Re-
sumption of Commercial
and Diplomatic Relations

Senator Joseph I. France, of Mary
land, who was admitted to Russia to
study the possibilities of trade re-
sumption between the United States
and that country, announced on his
return here yesterday that he was
confirmed in his opinion that America
ought not to delay dealing with the
Soviet-ruled nation. Also, he said
America ought to open diplomatic re-
lations with Moscow.
Aboard the Rotterdam of the Hol-
fundamental Line, which brought
Senator France home, was Mrs. Mar
garet E. Harrison, Baltimore news
paper woman, who was imprisoned for
ten months in Russia
Senator France issued a statement
saying it contained all he would have
to say at present. This statement
reads:
Il left America three months ago
declaring that America should not de-
lay resuming trade with Russia. re-
turn confirmed in this opinion. and
further, insistent that we should open
diplomatic relations. / see no reason
why we should be alarmed over a
relationship which obviously holds no
terrors for Great Britain or Germany
both of which are doing their best to
develop a maximum of trade With
Soviet Russia
Pleased With Relief Steps
There is little communism in Rus
sla. Extreme experiments in that d.
rectlon proved unsuccessful, and the
constructive party, at the head Of
which Lenine stands, was courageous
enough to force an abandonment Of
the MARKHAM theory and restoration
OF certain sound capitalistic policies
which are now in effect.
II am delighted that the famine 70.
lief work by America is getting under
way, for this is the first step in nv
program. | am confident that it will
be followed by an American trade dele
gaslon sent under government aus
plces, and that America will do her
share to revive Russia, thus to aid
world trade revival and thus directly
to benefit our own farms and factories
winch so desperately need aid of lust
this character. Gnu u JUST
expect to issue fuller statement
from Washington early next week"
MRS. Harrison, who did not show anv
outward effects of her imprisonment.
P"o'eo inc voyage from Plymouth in
n n, tateroom, writing her experiences.
ohe said she owed her release from
prison to Senator France.
Learned Lot in Jail
MRS. HARRISON went to Russia two
years ago as correspondent for Tho
ASSOCIATED Press, The Baltimore SIM
ana The New York Evening Post. She
Is the first American prisoner to reach
TINS country following an agreement
IN connection with relief measures
made with the Soviet government bv
secretary of State Hughes. Mrs. Har
TT1son, who is the daughter of Bernard
n. Baker, former member of the Ship
ping Board, was accompanied by her
son, Thomas B. Harrison, who went
abroad to meet her.
Il am so glad to get back I don't
want to say word or give a thought to
Russia just now" she said. She said
she learned more about Russian condi-
tons in jail than she could have learned
by touring the country.
The Rotterdam brought 1921 pas
sengers, 995 coming over in the two
upper cabins. Passengers reported
race with the French liner Lafayette
while nearing this port. The Rotter-
dam reached Quarantine ahead of the
other liner.