Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-12
COMMUNISM PRINCIPLE
MAINTAINED BY REDS
Insist They May Maintain
Any System They Desire
Without Interference.
Reject ARBITRATION y,
soviet. show Plainly. However. They
Desire {" Rcnch nm Agree
ment.
lRy Associated Press.l


GENOA. May ii.-Russia's replv 10
inc allied memorandum, which was
presented today to Signor Schanzer.
president OF the economic conference,
is generally regarded as concilatory.
Al least, il is considered n basis for
further negotiations.
IL is suggested that all the tangled
hnancial problems he submitted to a
mixed committee OF experts named
ny the conference, providing means of
escape from the present superheated
atmosphere, which appears TO be um-
favorable for the settlement oT tho
myriad questions arising on the Rus
sian situation.
England regards the reply as mod
eratcly conciliatory: SO also does
Italy. The Italian Foreign Ministsr
mas been working day and night 10
prevent n break which seemed i'm
minent through the opposition OF the
French and RclGian delegates to the
settlement OF property questions
which Great Britain and the lesser
powers approve.
Bnrthou DIsapprovcs.
France expresses great dtsappoint
nent.a the reply and Belgium Is far
from satisfied. NJ. Rarthou. head OF
the French delegation declared, af-
ter an examination OF the text. that
the reply did not get anywhere and
was not really an answer at all to
the allied proposals.
t"nS.qu"u;ly. il will not he cor
tam until after he has conferred ,yi,h
the government in raris, whether the
RUSSIAN proposals VIII he accepted
ny the French as a basis for conlin-
uation af the discussion
In tn" meantime. the futura or tho
conference is highly uncertain. Some
or the delegations believe that II Will
cI"s" precipitately. or perhaps. IL
would he ,ruer 10 say, that they hone
II viii. Other delegations predict
ihhi IL viii last six weeks longer and
go into the Russian financial tancIs
III great detail. The latter seem to
be in the majority. and indications To.
night are that the conference NAV
be prolonged Indefinitely.
The russians and all tho otb.r
dei"eatiors are saying many things
Tor home consumption which IL is
heIIeNeh they d" not really mean. and
underneath there is undoubtedly n
general desire To reach some aEreo
in"nt which will make Europ. mora
peaceful. The Russians have an
pcaicd strongly to Premier I.loyd
George AMI the peacc-cravinr popula.
lions OF the world in their support
OF a nonaggression pact and their
"Hu*i"ns /" disarmament
On the other hand, they fatty re
'nse To accept the allied proposais
FOR the treatment OF nationaiize1
property and reject the proposed
mixed arbitration committee to pass
nr"n claims OF the foreigners against
th" SOVIET government
Sustain Communism prInctnIe.
Ia other words. the Russians have
sustained the basic principle OF COM
lnunism and desire 10 have further
discussions on the subject OF nation
alzati"n, stoutly insisting that tho
f'"isheNist government may maintain
any social system and any system
n property holding which IL desires
ana cannot consent to anything which
may be interpreted as Limitation Of
It's sovereignty.
France. Poland. Czecho- Siovakla
ana some OF the smaller states would
Ike TO have the conference adjourned
ana reconvened later. They VIII ua-
i"ubtedly take advantage OF the Rus
'ian proposal for the reference OF
financial problems to mixed COM
nittee to suggest that this committee
report at later date TO another con-
1rehrc. Lloyd George. however. iS
hrmly against adjour nment OF the con-
.erence without some settlement oe
he Russian problem and viii doaht-
-ss oppose NJ Benes and other lead
,rs who have been working earnestly
'or another conference.
VI. fcncs wanted To- have n confer
nee called at Prague. but has re-
'eived little encouragement. Lloyd
irnrge ard his supporters have ap-
'arentiy regarded all the efforts At
,ostporement as part of the French
'lan to delay any settlement nt aha
fussian problem which did nc. NEE.
With their approval 5st