The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-24
SOVIETS EAGER
TO TRADE HERE
Their Appeal to United
States May Result in
Conference Later
OFFICIALS RETICENT
withhold Comment but Indi-
cate They May Lend Credu-
lence to Lenine Overtures

WASHINGTON, March 23.-Con-
the question OF resuming trade rela-
tons with the Russian soviet gov
ernment appeared TO be a POSSIBLE
ity today when the state department
announced receipt OF n message from
I.euine, Russian leader, appealing
FOR conference and announcing
that he stood ready TO send an Of
flclal delegation 20 this country for
the purpose of negotiating an agree
ment to that end.
Lcnicnt Tendency Discovered.
Government officials were careful
no. 20 commit themselves as TO their
probable course. but there were in
dications that the closest scrutiny
had been given the recently nego-
tiated British Russian trade agree
monts and that already a somewhat
broader Interpretation had been
given the regulations that defined
the Wilson administrations policy
I'm dealing with the soviet govern
mcnt.
The text of the Russian appeal,
which IN proposing opening trade re-
lations between the two countries
said FOR that purpose the relations
between the two republics have to
hc on the whole regularlzed." was
issued without comment. IL con-
tained an arraignment OF President
Wilson for his policy in dealing with
Russia. The hope was expressed
that tho United States would not
continue TO follow "obdurately" the
course taken by President Wilson,
who. the note declared, without
cause and without any declaration
ot war" had attacked Russia and
showed during his whole admins
tration a growing hostility toward
the Russian republic"
His Changed Attitude Noted.
Confirmation OF Lenines declara-
tlon Of his renunciation of many OF
the basic principles of bolshevism,
received by the state department,
has been given careful study by the
government eyperis, and while II
was realized his apparent about
face may have been nothing more
than n move caused by fhe eXigen-
cles OF the situation, there was mani
fest here disposition to give 1t
greater credencc.
The text OF the Russian govern
ments communication to the United
States government follows:
From the first days of her ex-
istenCe soviet Russia had nourished
the hope OF a speedy establishment
OF friendly relation with the great
republic of North America and had
firmly expected that intimate and
cold ties would he created between
the two republics 20 the greater ad-
vantage OF both.
Wilson as Always Hostile.
AT the time when the entente
powers had begun their invasion of
soviet Russia, unprovoked and with
out declaration OF war the soviet
government repeatedly addressed it,
self to the American government
with the proposal TO ADOPT measures
for the cessation OF bloodshed. Even
when the American troops partici-
pated in the attackyupon soviet Rus
sia, the Russian republic still ex-
pressed the hope of q speedy change
Of Americas policy toward her and
demonstrated this by its particularly
considerate treatment OF the Ameri-
cans in Russia. But President Will
son. who. without cause and without
any declaration OF war, had attacked
Se Russian republic showed during
his whole administration a growing
hostility toward the Russian re-
public.
Soviet Russia hopes that the
American republic VIII not persist in
mat the new American government
ohdurately following this path and
viii clearly see the great advantage