The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-19
RUSSIA REUSED
BY U. S. BAN ON
AIRpLANE SALE
Americas Action May Have
important Bearing on
World Relations.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMS
seripDs-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON. June 19-The
refusal 10 sell military airplsnes to
Russia because Of objections on the
part Of the United States govern
ment, sets q precedent which may
have a vital bearing upon this
country's future international rela-
tons.
The Kellogg pact, outlawing war,
having become a fundamental Of
American foreign policy, the ques-
ton of refusing or permitting the
sale Of war materials to countries
engaged in, contemplating, or other
wise flirting with war, becomes an
issue Of major importance here, and
one which can not fail to receive
considerable attention hereafter.
Russia. beyond doubt, will regard
the action Of the state department
which brought about the cancela-
ton Of an order Of twenty bomb
ers from the Glenn L. Martin Com
pany Of Baltimore, at a cost of ap-
proxinately 100000, as an I'M
friendly act.
Britain Sells Tanks
Great Britain just has sold eleven
tanks to the Nationalist govern
ment at Marking. now fighting for
its life against a rebel coalition in
the north and an army Of self
styled Communists in the south, and
an order for twelve more has been
placed. True, the government itself
is not filling this order, but 1t gave
the British f1rm permission to do so.
Furthermore, the Manchurian
government recently has bought up
ward of 100 French planes OF
military design.
Russia may be expected to view
the cancellation of the American
I mbers as part of the iron ring
which she complains the great pow
ers are welding about her.
When I was in Moscow last April,
every Soviet official with whom I
talked insisted that war seemed
J almost a certainty within the next
two or thxee years. They looked for
Poland to be the spearhead of a
coalition of European powers formed
to crush the Union of Soviet Re
publics before it became too strong
to be beaten.
Germany, France, Rumania, Italy
and England, they said. likely would
back Poland, and perhaps the United
States, morally and with money II
not with arms.
Feared in East
Great Britain fears Russia in two
spcts-India and China. but par
ticularly il India, where access is
had through Afghanistan.
Russia incurred this country'S dis
pleasure last year when Secretary
of State Stimson sent similar notes
to both Moscow and Marking, re-
minding the two governments that
they had signed the Kellogg peace
pact and urging them to forego hos
tilities over the Chinese Eastern
railway in Manchuria.
Peiping replied in a friendly man
ner, but NIoScow'S answer fairly siz-
zled. In effect, it was that up to
the present the United States had
not even recognized the existence
of Soviet Russia, so now it might
go jump in the lake. Russia, it i'm
piled could take care of herself very
we'll without Americas help.
Secretary Stimson still is the head
of the state department. And it
was that department whose veto
stopped the order of Martin bomb
ers from finding its way to the So
Wet army because of certain recent
developments"
While the department refuses to
enlarge upon its reasons, it is known
that Russia has been extremely act
hive of late preparing for the war
which her leaders appear to regard
as well nigh inevitable in the COM
paratively near future,