New-York tribune., 1921-01-29
Soviet Tyranny
Repudiated by
KerenskyPa Party
All Russian Democratic
Elements in Conference
at Paris Declare Every
Agreement of Reds Void
Manifesto Made Public
Bolsheviki Are Denounced
as Lacking Authority to
Give Foreign Concessions

A manifesto asserting that "the peo-
pies Of free Russia" cannot be bound
by agreements concluded by the Boil
sheviki and repudiating concessions
granted to foreigners, which was
adopted at conference now being held
in Paris of all Russian democratic ele-
ments opposed to Bolshevism, was made
public in this city last ght by A. j.
Sack, director of the Russian Informa-
tion Bureau.
Attending the conference are former
Premier Kerensky, Miliukof, former
Minister Of Foreign Affairs: Catherine
Breshkovkaya, grandmother Of the
Russian Revolution" and Boris A. Bakh-
meteff, former Russian Ambassador at
Washington. Presiding is N. D. Avk-
sentiev, a leader of the party of So
cialist- -Revolutionists and Minister Of
the Interior in the Russian Provincial
Government.
Attending also are members Of the
All-Russian Constituent Assembly,
which convened in Petrograd for one
day IN 1918 before it was dispersed by
the Bolsheviki.
Denounces Red Tyranny
The declaration issued by the confer
ence stated that "Russia can never
recognize any despotism as a legal au-
thority, particularly the Bolshevik
tyranny, which repudiates the most ele-
mentary principles of popular rule and
civil Liberties and leans only upon the
brute force of bayonets and ruthless
terror"
1t adds that "the peoples of free
Russia cannot hold themselves bound
to respect any agreements and con-
tracts whatsoever which NAV be CON
cluded by the Bolsheviki supposedly in
the name Of the Russian state" and
declared that "the conference repu-
dates the binding force of the conces-
sions that are being given away to
foreigners by the Soviet power"
Likewise the conference set forth
that 1T considers the illegal squanuer-
ing of the Russian gold reserve by the
boishevik power as looting Of the
state.
"The dissipation of this reserve will
undermine the very possibility of a
speedy economic regeneration Of Rus
sla, declared the manifesto. "The
conference protests emphatically
against foreign completely in such dis
sipation.'
Wants Blockade Removed
The conference also adopted declar-
alton by members of the Ali-Russian
Constituent Assembly, which, while op-
posing any endeavor to recognize the
Bolshevik government, said:
"lt Is necessary to remove all arti-
fetal barriers in the way of resuming
the economic contact of Russia with
the rest of the world and to terminate
the blockade in all it's forms, for the
burden Of the blockade as a system Of
lighting government rests mainly
upon, the shoulders Of the innocent
population.
,"Only after the lifting of the block.
ade will the masses understand fully
where. the real source Of all their un-
bearable, inhuman miseries lies. for
it is not so much in the blockade. which.
as matter Of fact, gripped Russia
three years before the Boishevik un-
heaval, as rather in the entire economic
policy Of the Bolsheviki that the cause
OF the total destruction Of the national
economy Of that great country is to
be looked for" 80 w