The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-17
BY LYLE G. WILSON
United Press stan Correspondent
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-Chair-
man William E. Borah Of the SEN
ate foreign relations committee, who
has renewed in the sevemy-second
congress his plea for recognition OF
Soviet Russia, told the United Press
today that world economic sanity
and solidarity can not be obtained
until the Russian problem Is set
tied.
He predicted that failure to adj
just Russian-American relations
would be a factor working at Ge-
neya this winter to defeat the dis
armament conference projected un-
der League of Nations influences.
Borah believes that if for none
other than selfish reasons of trade,
the United States should recognize
the Soviet Union. He again has in
troduced in the senate a resolution
favoring recognition. But with a
presidential year coming on there
is scant prospect that it even will
reach the senate floor for debate.
Trade Is Rich Prize
IT introduced this resolution, -
Borah said today, because I want
in every way can to keep the sub
Iect alive. I do not see how eco
nomic sanity and solidarity can be
had until this matter of diplomatic
recognition is adjusted.
Il would like to see everything
possible done to capture the vast
Russian trade that is inherent in
a great nation of 160000,000 people.
It is the greatest undeveloped mar
ket we. have, greater even in its
immediate pot entialities than
China"
I'VE can not hope TO enlarge our
markets in Europe proper to any
great extent. But the field of Rus
STA is as yet practically unoccupied,
and no country is in so advantage
Gus a position to occupy it and help
develop it as the United States. So
far as Russia is concerned, we need
only to cultivate and foster the
trade relations between the two
countries in order to secure that
vast market in the coming years.
Disarmament Impossible
"And, in my judgment, it is en-
tirely impossible to have anything in
the nature of real disarmament I'M
til the Russian problem is settled.
ct is country with national re-
sources, making it potentially the
wealthiest in the world. There is
a standing army Of 100000 men.
There can be no real disarmament
until there is the most amicable re-
1ationShip between the Soviet Rus
sian government and all other coun-
tries.
How can you straighten out the
European situation" Borah con-
tinued, with one-sixth of the
worlds surface estranged? 1t is true
that European nations have recog-
nized Soviet Russia, but you can't
get far toward a proper basis of
international relations until the
United States extends recognition.
SCOTS Debt Argument
I'm the meantime, the unsolved
Russian question will be factor
working toward failure of the
Geneva disarmament conference"
Borah is contemptuous of the ar
gument that unpaid debts created
a real basis for the state depart
ment's Russian attitude.
1.-THE czarist and Kerensky debts
at the end of the war;" he said,
aggregated $187,OOO,OOO. That sum
has been increased by accommodating
interest. But so far as those debts
are concerned, they could be adj
justed any day on far more favor
able terms than we adjusted the
debts owed us by other nations"