The New York herald., 1922-04-30
SETTLE PREAMBLE
Allies Also Agree on Ma
tionalization of Prop
erty and Propa-
ganda Terms.
DEBTS STILL TROUBLE
France Wants Recognition
of Full Amount Before
Granting a Reduction.
SEE RUSSIA ACCEPTING
Great Britain Suggests e. g
Supreme Court Decide on
Scaling Down Debt.
SEE RUSSIA ACCEPTING
by JOHN NH. sTUARv.

BY JOHN NH. sTUAR..
Special Gable to THE NEW yoRK ixNALD.
Copyright. 1899. by THE New YonK EfsaA u
GENOA. April 29.-The preainnle ~
the great charter of new relations be-
tween Russia and the rest of thA
world was completed tonight by Tho
subcommission on Russia of the c;aaoa
conference. In this preamble I'll aiiied
nations, Japan included, set f1ftn ~
detail their program for the reh ablilia~
ton Of Russia.
1.-THE text OF these proposs x 81
printed in an adjoining column
The conference is now at w on
the series of articles which is toy e,lsss
this preamble and which will deal s4Rh
conditions and guarantees on the part
of Russia and of the Allies
Framework of the Articles.
The general principles upon which
all are working follow:
FmsT-Europe, including Russia, 10
an economic entity.
SEcoND--Each Government has the
right to establish its own form of gov
ernment without interference.
TuRD--No form of government OF
one nation must infringe upon the
rights of another form of another ma
tlon.
F'oURTH-Past obligations must be
recognized. Under this. and in con-
formity with previous principles,
agreements are TO be reached on what
demands shall be made upon Russia
for the restoration OF private foreign
property Agreements on the subject
OF war debts and prewar debts has not
yet been reached.
what Russia Is offered. r.
The preamble, in brief. offers Rus
sia Immediately 5000, 900, 900, available
from England, Japan and Belgium in
governmental credits: and the assist
ance of an international consortium
with an initial capital of 100000, 900.
to which England, Belgium. Italy and
Japan promise to subscribe.
France herself, though refraining
from offers of direct financial assist
ancS owing to her difficulties, makes
definite offers Of aid in the shape OF
1000 locomotives. $4,000 freight cars,
thousands of passenger cars and sew
eral thousand tractors, with skilled
crews. plant and personnel to repair
and maintain the railway system, be-
sides supplies OF all kinds-and seed.
Such are the immediate benefits
which the representatives of Russia
will lave to spurn. IL still they refuse
TO meet the Allies other terms. And
there are but few observers here to-
night who believe the Russians will
refuse the terms.
The Property Compromise.
A compromise has been reached on
the. question OF the return of nation
allied properties on terms which III is
believed the Russians cannot refuse
They are that the use of these proper
ties shall be reconveyed to their old
owners or that they shall be compen-
sated for the same, though formal
title is To. remain with the Soviet Gov
ernment. in conformity with Soviet
law.
War debts must be recognized. and
while II is likely that they will be re-
duced il has not been settled as to
who shall establish the scale and who
shall see ii is carried out
All that remains unsettled regarding
the private property Is the exact ter
minology in which the agreement shall
be couched. so as to be clear in all
systems of law and in all the lam
guages involved Sir Edward Griggs,
speaking for the British tonight. gave
his personal assurance that the re-
ported difficulties went no further
than this. but he pointed out that with
all the systems of law--Anglo-Sa Saxon.
Roman, Dutch Roman, Napoleonic and
Soviet codes-it was no easy task to
define such abstract terms as user.
usufruct, Ieasehod. &C. The matter
was renlitted to a committee consist
ing OF Fromageot Of France, Sir Cecil
Hurst for England and Gather OF
Belgium.
Question OF Recognition.
| There remains for the conference
| political work-whether Russia shall
be recognized de jure--and the work
OF straighters out those frontiers
which rs Mr.. Lloyd George said. from
the Baltic to the Black seas threaten
to infiamc Europe again"
The firstfstep in Strengthening out
frontiers was taken BY suhcoh1uiis-