Evening star., 1922-04-12

should promise various reforms in the
administration Of justice. including
Independence Of the judiciaries and
tree access to the courts by foreigners.
VINO should be treated on a basis OF
equality.
Further recommendations stipuiate
tnat the soviet permit foreigners to
enter and leave Russia in conformity
with international practice. Foreign
ers resident In Russia should be ex-
empt from all obligatory military
service. have liberty to communicate
through the post, telegraph and wire
less systems and use telegraphic codes
and have every protection and the
rlsht to conduct commerce or pro-
fesstons without discrimination or re-
strictfon on account of their ma
tfonality. No discrimination should
be shown IN the case OF workmen
employed by foreigners regarding
military service or enforced labor.
Additional rights of foreigners in
Russia are suggested on the same
basis as in other countries.
ihe second part of the report is
devoted to the restoration Of Europe.
Resoiutlons are grouped under the
headings OF finance. economics and
transport The report declares that
an essential condition of economic
reconstruction is that each country
shall stabilize tho value of its money,
declaring: NO country can be master
OF Its own money so long as its bud
get shows an annual deficit which it
tries to meet by the issue of paper
currency or by opening bank credits.
Each country must try by independ-
ent effort to remove the deficit"
The report then proceeds to discuss
measures Tor reform on the subjects
or exchange credits, tarfn restric-
tions and prohibitions respecting i'm
portations and expectations. A spe-
cial section is devoted to the subject
of transports; 1t declares that the
administration of internati tional trans
ports must not be determined by
political considerations. but by COM
mercial and technical reasons. as en-
phaszed by the conventions Of BARGE
Iona. 1921. dealing with the liberty
Of transit.
'1t is desirable" says the report,
that representatives of the railroads
of the different countries should hold
a cenference to determine what
measures are necessary for the res
toration of International traffic con-
ditions, which should be equally ef-
Hcient as during the pre-war period"
This clearly implies that the res
toration of the transsiberian rail-
been closed to world communication
since the Russian revolution.
Referring to the reconstruction of
Russia, the report especially empha-
sizes that effective collaboration of
Russia and other nations will be diff
ficult unless Russia whole-heartedly
labors to restore her economic life,
| the basis of which is agriculture.
Security regarding property right is
| a necessary condition for the rebirth
| of Russia, the report adds. and when
this comes foreign assistance will be
! available Immediately. In her in
! dustrial life Russia cannot expect
foreign help until foreigners are able
to count upon the good will and COL
laboration of the Russian govern
ment.
The financial commission organized
yesterday and elected Sir Robert
Stevenson Horne, British chancellor
| Of the excheQuer, president A sub
commission similar to that on Rus
sia, consisting Of eleven men, will
be appointed.