The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28
Driving Toward Soviet Recognition


The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has received
what is called "a large measure judicial recognition in
federal court in New York City, despite the lack of poll
teal recognition by the at Washington the state
department of which for eleven years under four presidents
has insisted that there government in Russia
Federal Judge Goddard rendered his decision declaring
it contained contradictions but that perfectly in
harmony with all the established presidents of the law at
the very when the Znovev Letter fraud being
exposed Berlin and imposing group of British business
leaving for Moscow to drum up Russian trade.
may yet develop that there is close connection between
these three Developments It is said that the United States
courts follow the election returns but they also keep eye
American trade possibilities in these days of overproduc
ton and increasing army of unemployed at home The
Soviet Union today offers tempting market for American
goods and the United States government to
lose its faith in the fake Znoviev document
The American nationals that Judge Goddard is worried
about the Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust
Company defendants in the suit brought by the Bank of
France to seize $50O000o in gold sent here by the Soviet
State Bank at Moscow The gold safely back in Moscow
but the French bank is still pressing for payment.
Judge says existing government
in Russia sovereign within its territory cannot be and is
not entirely ignored by country although has
70 Russian zen The xeut;ve and nd;c;al brancbes
acknowledge the existence of the
Russia to the extent of requiring such applicants
citizenship allegiance the
of Russia marriage which valid of
of Russia is quite universally regarded
valid in country"
Thus the United States government lodges the existence
of the Soviet government by referring to it the present
government of Russia while there hestancy in the
the Imperial Russian Government of the Cars
thing that effect giving all the hghsouning and
titles adopted by the oppressors of the Russian
Even after IL years the government at Washington is
still having bard time convincing itself that Russian
gone forever The latest of the congressional
record still carried the of the notorious Serge Ughet
as agent for Russia The Kerensky regime that Ughet
to represent swept in the flood waters of
the revolution in November 1917 But it has been convent
for the United States to continue form of
milton of him. For instance he able to collect the
damages which should have rightfuy to the Soviet
government that awarded result of the wartime
"Black Tom explosion in New Jersey.
The interests of American nationals in the Soviet
Union continually growing This is easily in the
contracts reached for instance by the Standard Oil Company
of New York and the International Electric Company with the
Soviet government. The United States government claims
be jealous of the rights of its nationals has declared
permanency against Latin America to protect their
interests maintains hardboed machine gun diplomacy
ready duty moments notice and sends thousands of
marines fleets of batteshps to danger sectors in the
orient especially against China.
Washington has been accustomed to declare that
possible to get Soviet trade without recognition That is
what the British thought five when they faxed
the Znovev Letter. in the election campaign of that
and later broke off diplomatic relations But the British
bent driving rapidly for renewed Soviet recognition
and efforts capture trade with the Soviet Union
Thus American trade faces increasing competition
from British in this important sector of the world market
It is this situation that nexoraby driving the American
toward recognition of the proearian dictator
ship workers and peasants the form of the Soviet
The judicial recognition given by the federal courts
in New York City paves the toward political recognition