The New York herald., 1922-12-03
BORAH TELLS BOSTON
TO SUPPORT SOVIET
Urges Recognition by U. s. at
Meeting Arranged by Prof.
Frankfurter.
APPEAL TO CONGRESS
Speaker Says Russia Is Key to
Solution of Whole Euro
pean Situation.

Special Dispatch to THE Nrw YORK HERALD.
BosroN, Dec. 2.--Senator William Z.
Borah's fervent appeal for the recog
milton Of the Russian Soviet Republic by
the United States won repeated applause
and occasional cheers from $500 men
and women in Symphony Hall tonight.
Resolutions calling upon Congress and
the President to take steps toward the
recognition of the Soviet were read and
the audience registered its approval.
Senator Borah tried to Justify his
arguments. based on political. CONNER
cial and humanitarian grounds, with
quotations from trade and financial
sources. He emphasized that the French
revolution won recognition from the
American Government under Washing
ton.
There was laughter when the Senator
told of a warning he had received that
he was facing the ordeal of addressing
''the most conservative gathering under
the American flag" He said he thought
Bostonians acted quite human
The most cheering came when the
Senator assured his audience there had
never been an hour since the fall of the
old regime that he had not wished well
for the Russian revolution. And you
can make the most of it," he said.
o Prof Felix Frankfurter of the Har-
ward Law School was chairman of the
committee under whose auspices Senator
Borah spoke.
Senator Borah said in part Upon
what theory can you restore and recon-
struct the shattered fabric of Europe
with one of the great nations an out
law? What policy have the nations to
present. for the restoration of Europe
which leaves out Russia? What pro-
gram do they offer to the countless mill
ions in Europe tonight who are beg
ging to be protected from disease and
hunger and misery?
Not only my friends. Is 1t necessary
for Europe, but it is slso in large
measure a starting point of a. return
lated In this Administra tion-in this
country. We have passed tariff bill
and put thirty cents on wheat
Our distinguished Secretary OF Com
merce, Mr.. Hoover. has said that we
do not trade with Russia, therefore
why should we be anxious to recognize
the Government of Russia? We do not
trade with Russia a great deal, although
I observed the other day that Rus
sian organization had purchased $4,000
bales of cotton from the South. for
which it paid s6,o0o,oOo. was told by
a business man in New Yoork last night
that he sold a large order of goods to
Russia, although he had to sell it
through an English merchant.
IF / may be permitted to say So our
international affairs are still saturated
with fear, suspicion and intolerance. anS,
OF late With a spirit apparently or
vengeance. Just in proportion as we
| eliminate these elements from our inter-
ma. .ional affairs shall we come to, enjoy
peace and the world will again recur to
the conditions which obtained prior to
the great conflict. So long as we pursue
the policy which has characterized in
ternational affairs in SO large a meas
ure since the signing of the armistice
we shall not be able to restore peace or
bring happiness or prosperity to the
countless millions who are now suffer-
| ing.
but while the world wants peace
and wants the great burden OF arma-
ments lifted it is impossible to make
progress under the policies which now
obtain, and you cannot have peace IN
Europe. you cannot return to normalcy
in Europe, you cannot lift the burden
of armaments in Europe until the Rus
sian question is settled. 1t is the key
to the great problem OF restoring peace
throughout the continent OF Europe.
This was recognized at Genoa, Il is rec
ognized by the leaders of Europe and
ought to be recognized by the leaders
of this country.
1--WE are confronted at once with the
proposition that Russia has form OF
government in which we do not believe.
We are told. in to-day's papers particu-
larly, that the cruelties and the hideous
crimes committed by the Lenin Gov
ernment make 1t impossible for orderly
people to consider the question of recog-
milton. I said n moment ago that our
recognition of Russia is neither an ap-
proval nor a disapproval Of their form
of government. and / repeat that II has
nothing to do with the practices of that
| government except in so far as they
touch or relate to international affairs
Let me read to you a single line from
| Washingtons letter as to why he recog-
/ nized the Government OF the French
Revolution. for he said. My attitude
may be summed UP in few words
that I have always wished. well to the
French revolution.
II have always given IL as my de-
cided opinion that no nation has a right
I to intermeddle In the internal concerns
! Of another. and that every one has a
I right TO form and adopt whatever gov
ernment they like to live under them
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