Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

the President ignored the Interpolation
as "inconseQuential, irrelevant, imma-
terial and not the best of evidence" as
the lawyers say.
1T is a constantly reiterated state
ment," continued Mr.. Hoover, that
| there is a vast field for the sale Of
American goods, for the employment
for large profits for those straw men
| called capitalists. These statements
have the same degree of imitation as the
Bolshevik ruble, which now stands
100000 to the dollar G922). When
Russia was running full blast, before
the war, she took l per cent Of the ex-
ports of the United States, which, when
reduced into terms of working time Of
our workmen and farmers, meant,
roughly, the employment of, say, 80, 900
Americans. We are not, nor ever will
be. dependent upon Russia for the
physical welfare of our people"
It may surprise some readers at the
| franknesS of the President in talking
for publication, when it has been the
| practice during many administrations
10 refrain from ever quoting a Presi-
| dent directly. The quotations were
| usually credited to the White House
spokesman" which every sophisticated
reader knew was the President in
cognito. Mr.. Hoover has guillotined the
White House spokesman" and if any,
| body can get beyond his aStute Secre-
taries and secret service guards he may
survive, even after all sorts of improper
| questions directed at Mr.. President him
self. In all cases the writer will keep
faith, as all experienced newspaper men
| always do.
As stated in the opening of this Gin
terview," I guarantee the accuracy of
| all words attributed to President Hoo
yer, for they are taken bodily and lit
orally out of an article he wrote in
1922 Tor the Manufacturers News of
Boston. His sentiments expressed then
are beyond question his views of today,
and while the propaganda writing for
the New York paper skillfully avoided
asserting that President Hoover had
really said any word of what he pur-
ports to have indicated, as inter-
| preted by certain Senator'S" who lin
ferred" that he would soon reverse the
policy Of Presidents Wilson, Harding
and Coolidge, it Is plainly given out
| by Secretary of State Stimson that
there will be no change of policy in
regard to Russia.
AS an Interview" this whole article
is giraffe" such as overwhelmed the
farmer who saw it for the first time,
but President Hoover is not misquoted
In the crossing Of an 81" or dotting OF
a "t.'
He said it all-in 1922-in a signed
article for the magazine, and he was
Secretary Of Commerce then. in Presi.
dent Coolidge's cabinet. While the
transformation of his words into the
form and substance of an interview
is not to be taken literally, it is what
literary fellerS" know technically as {
"hashback" bringing the incident d
1922 up to date.
X x x
The reader will draw his own conclus
SionS, in the light of Mr.. Hoover,S write
ten statements of 1922, whether there 4
any likelihood that he will give diplo@
matte recognition to the country which,
has refused to recognize its debt,
amounting to more than 5000, 000, COG
due to the United States Government
with accruing interest, plus some $780,
100000 more in property belonging to
American investors and some $89 000,-
900 in repudiated Russian bonds, owned
by Americans, and with persistent ac-
tivitieS in subversive efforts to under
mine the stability of United States
governmental institutions.
X + X
In 1923, Secretary of State Hughes
commented on a telegram received by
President Coolidge from Russian OFF,
Gals. Mr.. Hughes said:
IF the Soviet authorities are ready
to restore the con1Scated property of
American citizens. or make effective
compensation, they can do so. # the
Soviet authorities are ready to repeal
their DEGREES repudiating Russian OBJ Y
: legations of their country, and appro
priately recognize them, they can do sol
1t requires no conference or negotia 7
tons to accomplish these results, whic n
can and should be achieved in Moscow
as evidence of good faith. The Ameri
can Government has not incurred lis
) bilitieS to Russia nor repudiated obi
; cations. Most serious is the continues
propaganda to overthrow the inStitV
tons of this country. This Government
can enter into no negotiations until
these efforts, directed from Moscok,
are abandoned"
In statement entitled Foreign Re-
lations," by Secretary of State Mr.
Frank B. Kellogg, published in the
Republican, National Bulletin No. s.
1928, is the direct renewal of the charge
that Soviet Russia continues to be 1.-The
agency Of a group who hold it as their
mission to bring about the overthrow OF
the existing political, economic and
social order throughout the world and
who regulate their conduct toward
other nations accordingly"
| Secretary Kellogg added:
THE present rulers of Russia, while
seeking to direct evolution Of Russia
along political, economic and social
lines, in such manner as to make it an
effective base of the world revolu-
tion,' continue to carry on, through the
Communist International and other
organizations, with headquarters in
Moscow, within the borders of other
nations, including the United States,
atoms for the purpose of ultimately
bringing about the overthrow of the
existing order Of such nations"
Somehow that seems to explain the
article in the New York paper, how
ever naive and unsuspecting may be
the duped correspondent. This heat Ia
distractingl