Evening star., 1922-01-15
RUSSIA EXPECTED
PARLEY INVITATION
Soviet Government Had
Made Plans in Advance
for Attending.
BY EDGAR ANsELL MOWRER.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1929.
ROME, Italy, January 14.-"The
Russian soviet government waited
nearly two months for an invitation
to the Genoa conference and had
made plans for attending. 1t only
protested against the choice of Genoa
in order to force the Italian authori-
ties to provide adequate communica-
tions between the seat of the confer
ence and Moscow"
These were some of the statements
made to the writer today by politi-
cal figure who desires that his name
be withheld.
Comments on BRAND.
The fall of Premier BRAND" he
continued. cannot affect the Genoa
conference BRAND will have the
pleasure of watching his successor
submit conditions more radical than
those he had accepted. France must
submit. The reason is that the agree
ment between France and Japan as
revealed in documents submitted to
the Washington conference by NJ.
Yudeniev of the Far Eastern Republic
delegation Is genuine. Yudeniev, a
serious man, acted for the govern
ment of Russian Soviets, which thus
forced the hand of France and Japan,
for should these countries now refuse
to meet the soviet delegation it will
be proof of the agreement, the ex-
istence of which they deny. Conse-
quently, France and Japan will meet
Russia and Germany at Genoa, where
the principle will be established that
the European situation must he set
tied as a whole.
Beyond this the Genoa confer
ence probably will not go because
the problem is too large. But the
door will be opened for private
is suspicious of the proposed Eu
ropean consortium because 1t con-
siders the capital of 2O.O00.0O0 pounds
(normally about $100,0OO.00O) too
small. 1t will ask for separate
agreements with the individual states.
fuse, because France has not had
secret relations with the bolshevist
government since February, 1920,
when she sent certain count to
Copenhagen, where he entered into
relations with the soviets. Later
the French watched the British
nervously, fearful lest they be out
diStanced.
Commercial Agreements.
"The go-betweens then were the
Russians Maikhalov. a former men,
shevik, and a Georgian subject named
Skobelev. These two carried on the
communications between the soviet
and the French foreign office. The
elimination of this long filtration
came last September. Then Walter
L. Brown of the American relief ad-
ministration met the soviet represen-
tatiye, Maxim Litvinov. at Riga
and concluded important commercial
agreements. The French protested
that Litvinov snubbed the French,
but he declared that Russia was
ready to enter into similar agree
ments with France. French COM
panies brought pressure to bear on
the government, with the result that
a French agent left Paris in October
for Moscow and is still in Moscow.
"The French desired to hide this
from the British but failed. Prime
Minister Lloyd George twitted BRAND
with secret scheming when they met
in London in December, declaring
that the French premier must re-
nounce his attitude of disdainful in
dignation against the soviets, to
whom he was sending a secret agent.
The result was that an invitation
was sent to Lenin to attend the
Genoa conference"