The Washington times., 1923-12-22
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Challenges, as to 'Red" Men
ace, May Force Hughes
to Showdown.
BY JOHN T. LAMBERT,
COsmouoIitan News Service.

Investigation of private de-
tective agencies throughout the
United States which are suspected
Of issuing faxed "red" letters
and forged radical pamphlets in
order to make work for their
spies will result from the decision
Of the United States Senate to
probe the Russian situation.
Russia Welcomes Industry.
Russia welcomes the inquiry.
Tchitcherin's exclusive statement to
Universal Service, in which he chal-
lenged Secretary Hughes to sub
NIT the authenticity of the "red"
notes to arbitration, was today
supplemented by Boris Shvirsky. un-
official representative of Russia in
this country, who said:
ST have been in this country for
three years as the head of this dele
cation. l welcome the most init
mate scrutiny of every act done
by either the delegation or myself"
Secretary Hughes can hardly let
needed. He is today the country's
foremost exponent of the World
Court. He says he is a 100 per cent
arbitrationist.
Senator Borah forced the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee to
agree to investigate the alleged
red" propaganda to dismantle our
government, tear the constitution to
shreds, blow up public buildings,
hitch the red flag to the White
House flagpole and organize rifle
battalions, in squads of ten, to cap
ture or shoot down the 11O, 900 900
said unless Foreign Relations did
1T, he would call together his own
Committee on Education and Labor
and go through a sweeping probe
In public
Hughes Charges.
Secretary Hughes said this propa-
ganda of the Soviet regime" was
contained in secret instructions
mailed to the Workers Party of
America" by a man named Zino-
view, described by Hughes as "Presi-
dent of the Communist International
and President Of the Petrograd So
Wet. This secret propaganda is
by the Burns detectives in the De
partment of Justice.
Secretary Hughes may have been
misled. Slivirsky says a Soviet" is
neither an individual nor a political
party. It is thing 1t is the
same as our city council or board
OF aldermen. In the town it is the
board OF selectmen.
Zinoviev is chairman of the com
munist international or third in
ternational, a political party with
members in fifty-six countries
Skvirsky says he Communist party
is the largest party in Russia at
present. AT the last elections, how
ever, the non-pa rtisans, who are
not members of that party, carried
a majority of the Russian villages
Zinoviev, he says, was elected by
the people of Moscow as a delegate
to the Moscow Soviet, or city gov
eminent, and the delegates subse-
ouently elected him their chair
man. There are both Communists
and non-partisans in the Moscow
city government.
Zinoyiev, says Skvirsky. beers
about the same relation to Russia
as Chairman John T. Adams, of
the Republican national committee
would bear to this Government If
he happened to be also mayor of
his home city in Iowa. It would
be like the United States getting
into a fuss with England because
of something done by the Mayor Of
Akron, Ohio.
If there is a formidable Work
ers' Party of America" which is
going to capture this country by
force of arms. it has yet to show
itself at any national election and
in no State of the Union has il
cast enough, or any votes, to give
IT the official standing of a party.
President Coolidge, Of course, has
not, in the past. been averse to
written or spoken propaganda,
Eamonn DeValera, president of the
Irish rtpublic, made in Boston the
first important speech in which he
urged the United States to recog-
niZe the revolutionary Irish govern
ment. which had been set up there
in defiance of Great Britain. Cool
idge, then governor of Massachu-
setts. sent to the meeting a letter
In which he said America welcomed
DeValera aE ii had welcomed Kos
suth and as it would continue 10
welcome all future pleaders for
liberty. II is not reported that
England cut off diplomatic relations
with United States because of this
announcement which a governor of
q State gave to De Nelera's effort
ait or