The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-02-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
So0cSCGSG G0CSC

Washington, d. C. - That the Unit
ed States should not participate in the
proposed Genoa Conference if dele
gates are present representing the
Bolshevik Government Of Russia is
urged by Professor Paul n. Miliukov,
former Minister Of Foreign Affairs in
the Russian Provisional Government.
This spokesman of portion of the
people Of Russia asserts that one pur-
pose of the conference is to make the
United States a burden bearer for the
Bolsheviks and that the ultimate res
toration of normal conditions in that
country will be delayed by giving the
Bolshevik regime the recognition in
cident to admitting its representatives
to an International conference. He adj
vocates continuance of the policy stat
ed in Secretary Hughes note OF March
25, 1921. In his presentation Of the
subject Professor Miliukoy says:
THE Rolshevist rule is nearing its
logical end. The material resources
upon which 1t rested are near eXhaus-
ton. The gold reserve in Rolshevist
possession is down to almost nil. and
they are unable, therefore. to get
from abroad the supplies necessary
for the support of their Communist
Party. the Bolshevist bureaucracy and
the Red Army. At the same time. Rus
sia, including the villages, is in state
of starvation and famine, and the Boil
| sheviki are unable to get supplies
from the peasants. Therefore, they
are badly in need of loan. The loan
they ask for is needed for the upkeep
o ftheir decaying machinery of dom
nation. Continuation in power is the
Bolsheviki's only aim.
at is clear that Russia's return to
productivity is Indispensable for the
| reestablishment Of normal economic
conditions in Europe and throughout
the world At the same time, the mini
mum reforms required to make Rus
sia's return to productivity possible is
the reestablishment of personal Sc
| curity and legal order, which would
safeguard human lives and property
| in Russia. In the absence OF these
| prerequisites. none of the elements OF
Russia's national economy can be re-
stored; neither agriculture, nor indus
try, nor commerce, nor the balance OF
trade. nor a sound currency, nor a
bulge. Under the Bolshevist rule Rus
STA will continue in static of eco'
nomic disintegration, sinking lower
and lower. The famine, whic hset IN
practically as early as 1919, will be-
come chronic.
"The real solution of the problem
lies in the confirmation of the just and
democratic American policy towards
Russia, as expressed in Secretary Col
by's note of August 10, 1920, and Sec
reteary Hughes noote of March 70
1921. We. Russian democrats. appea
to America that this policy Of friend
shin for the Russian people and OF ar
uncompromising attitude towards Boil
sheyism should be continued. If thu
nolsheyiki are naxious for intercourse
with the civilized world, the demo
cratic nations should present to then
the following conditions as prelim
mary to any conference; l. The Dol
sheviki must agree to an immediat
abolition of terror and of the notori
GUS Extraordinary Commission;
Political freedom freedom OF speecf
press and assembly, must be reestar
lished in Russia; and 3. The Bolshe
Wiki must agree to immediate ire
elections to a really representativ
assembly.
1.-THE Russian democrats will ne
cease to protest against any interns
tional measure which tends
strengthen morally and materially tn
government which is not recognize
by the Russian people and whose pc
Icy perpetuates the state OF starvato
: in Russia. Ignorance alone, or hit
den sympathy with the Bolshevist e'
pertinent, can dictate the policy whic
would give a new lease OF life to tn