The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-06-15
EUROPE'S HOPE
is CENTERED IN
HAGUE PARLEY
Open International Confer
ence Dedicated to Task of
Making Practical Arrange
ments of Russian Action.
HARMONY is SOUGHT
(Ry Associated press,

THE HAGUE, June 15.-All Europe
centered its hope today in the open
ing of the international conference
which is dedicated to the task of max
ing practical arrangements for the re-
entry of Russia into the concert of
nations.
The at least temporary failure OF
the efforts at Paris to organize an in
ternational loan for the restoration OF
Germany has undoubtedly served TO
augment the pessimism obtaining in
many countries concerning the pros
poets of making definite agreements
with communistic Russia on such mat
ters as credits, the treatment to be
accorded to property held by foreign
ers, and the payment Of the Russian
debts
Nevertheless determination was evi-
dent among the delegates gathered
here for the preliminary meetings to
make every conceivable effort to
reach the results which the Genoa con-
ference did not succeed in achieving
The representatives of the principal
countries, excepting Russia, were
scheduled to assemble in the peace
palace at 2:20 o'clock this afternoon
and their begin their labors of study
ing the program which would be pre-
sented to the Russian delegation a.
the joint meetings, to open June 26.
To Welcome Delegates
Although Holland disclaims any in
ference, Foreign Minister VanKarne-
beck will deliver the opening address
as temporary president, welcoming
the delegates to The Netherlands and
voicing Hollands sincere wishes for
the success of the conference.
Chief interest centers in the harmon
ization of the attitudes Of England,
France and Italy on how to approach
the soviet delegation officially, for
France shows a disposition to adhere
tenaciously to her Genoa demand for
suitable guarantees from the Bolshe
wiki before undertaking to renew Off
cial regulations with Russia
France objects to the soviet memo
randum, submitted to the Genoa confer
ence on May IL, which attacked the
capitalist system of the countries and
charged these nations with doing many
Ithings-confiscatin property, for ex
ample-equally drastic with the Boil
shevik measures to which they object
ed. The French would like to see this
memorandum withdrawn by the sovists
before official pour parlers with the
Russian delegates again are inaugu-
rated.
concIIIatory Policy
Great Britain and Italy apparently
are ready to pursue a more concilia-
tory policy. The preliminary meetings
beginning today, therefore, promise to
be most important.
AS the delegates enter the peace pal
ace one of the first objects to greet
them is a simple marble bust of An
drew Carnegie in a niche at the head
of the grand staircase and in the bal
cony is a striking bronze statue of
| Christ, an emblem of peace and good
will among men. This impressive fig
ure is duplicate of the famous Christ
of the Andes and was presented by
| Argentine.
When the Bolsheviki arrive they will
find near the main portal a reminder
of the regime they overthrow in the
form of a great marble vase which was
presented to the peace palace by the
later Czar Nicholas.
M. Van Karnebeek called the confer
ence together in the hall used by the
international court of justice, which
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the use of the conference.
PARIS, June 15.-The Belgian for
eign minister, NJ. Jasper. had a long
interview with Premier Poincare last
night which resulted according to the
Echo de Paris in a complete agree
ment as to the stand to be taken by
the two nations at the Hague confer
ence.
Belgium, it was added. will maintain
the attitude she adopted at the Genoa
conference regarding the return of
private property in Russia, taken un-
der the Soviet governments nationali-
zation program.
1t is stated in some quarters that.
should France decide that her dele
gates shall not meet the Russians
when the joint conference begins at
the Hague, June 26, Belgium will fol-
low suit.
MOSCOW, June 14-On the eve of
the Hague conference, officials of the
Russian Soviet government inform
2 the Associated Press that the Russian
: attitude at the new meeting will be
the same as that adopted at the Ge
noa conference The only concessions
to foreign capital possible, it is added,
viii be on the basis of the recently
! enacted laws governing private prop
| erty.
Karl Radek, soviet chief of publiei
! ty declared: The Hague conference
0 of experts will be rather hindrance
: than help because it will not be q
!, mutual discussion of problems but
e merely create new united front o.
|. capital.
= IF we are not to consider the dec
4 larations of Hoover and Hughes ant
v the memorandum of Poincare as EN-
PITY threats, then what they ask be
k ! fore the pour parlers with Russia, |!
e Russia's withdrawal of the memoran
r dunn of the eleventh of May in which
+ the principal position of Russia wa
J. expressed.
Demands Esteem.
THE Russian government is not Il
such a low position as to allow itsel
to be treated with contempt, eithe
,.l by France or even America, withou
:. whose economic cooperation the eco
~ nomics of the Russian state can no
a be re-established. BY her famine re
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