Evening star., 1932-11-20
ROBINS MISSION
TO RUSSIA CITED
Effort to Align Soviet With
Allied Powers Is Recalled I
Here.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Almost simultaneously with Col. Ray
mond Robins sudden temperance the
State Department yesterday made pub
lie documents which throw new light on
the effort he made ID years ago to align
Soviet Russia with the allied powers.
Robins was in Russia as head of an
American Red Cross mission In 1917
and early 1918, became friendly with
Lenin, TrotZky and other Bolshevist
leaders and was active in negotiations
whereby it was hoped to prevent Soviet
Russia from making a aeparate peace
with Germany.
A dispatch from Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State, to David r. Francis,
American Ambassador in Russia, dated
December 29, 1917, after the Bolshevists
had taken over the Kerensky govern
ment gave instructions that Robins was
to carry on Red Cross measures Tor re-
lief in Russia, but was to make 1t clear
that he was acting for the Red cross
"an organization maintained oy prl-
yate subscriptions and not by the
United States Government.
Involved in Shipments.
Robins name also is mentioned py
Francis in connection with shlpmeilCS
of war supplies the Soviet government
was making from Archangel to Siberia,
against British protests. A dispatch OF
Francis to Lansing dated April 5, 1918.
pxplains that the Soviet officials SAID
thev expected to pay for war supplies
in raw materials, but asked for time 10
Organize the economic resources OF
Russia"
Francis message said that the Soviet
officials asked who can think tnat
the government whose best soldiers
have fought against German control IN
the Ukraine and Finland can now be
planning to furnish Germany with
power to enslave their own lands?'
do not understand that I accept abb
solutely such assurances as does Robins,
to whom they we're made" Francis
message continued, but at the same
time the Soviet government interests
clearly demand German resistance, as
German domination spells the over
throw of bolshevism."
The name of Robins appears again
in dispatch sent to the State Depart
ment by Francis october II, 1918, after
Soviet Russia had ratified the BreSt-
Litovsk treaty with Germany, which
took Russia definitely out of the war.
Francis dispatch related to an effort OF
the United States to agree with the al
lied powers to resume commerce WIN
Soviet Russia under certain condltlonS.
Ambassadors Dispatch.
The late Ambassadors dispatch says:
THE bolshevik government, II not
German agents, was completely under
the control of the Germans. The eco
nomic and unpublished provisions OF
the Brest-Litovsk treaty gave Germany
many important commercial advantages
exclusive in some instances. Col.
Raymond Robins, have heard and
advised the department, when he re-
turned to America in May, was the
bearer of a proposition from the So
Wet government proffering to our gov
ernment like advantages and conces-
SionS.
THE bolshevik government was
treacherous to its German pledges and
thought it could induce us into max
ing agreements to the exclusion of our
allies. I have asked the department
if Col Robins presented such proposals
and advocated their acceptance, but
have received no reply. Again, 1
should like to be informed on this
subject if the department will permit. !"
The Russian correspondence pub
lished by the State Department does
not contain dispatches which indicate
whether Robins proposals for cooper
alton with Soviet Russia were presented
to the State Department or what ac-
ton was taken on them.