Evening star., 1933-12-10
DR.. WALSH SCORES
RUSSIAN POLICIES
Radio Audience Told Evil of
Third InternationaIe in
Recognition.

Discussing Russian policies Wnlcn nad
blocked recognition by the United
States until recently, DR.. Edmund A.
Walsh, S. j., vice president of George
town University and regent OF the
School of Foreign Service. last night
unleashed sharp attack on the Third
Internationale. He warned that failure
by the Soviet government mot only to
disassociate itself from, but to end
that political bureau ''can result in only
one logical Observation-Disclosures to
comply"
DR.. Walsh spoke over the National
BroadcaSting Co. chains, under auspices
of the American Alliance, for the first
: time since the recent negotiations be-
tween President Roosevelt and Maxim
Litvinoff, Soviet commissar for foreign
affairs While admitting that Russian
guarantees for the performance of its
international obligations toward the
United States were "a significant aban-
donment of previous Soviet policy" he
centered his criticism almost entirely on
the Third Internationale.
Opposed 10 Years.
For 10 years, Dr. Walsh said, he had
steadfastly opposed recognition on the
grounds of public policy and because
non-recognition was clearly in accord
with the traditional policy of the United
States to new governments and newly
formed states" The Soviet government,
he declared, had evaded the one re-
manning requirement for recognition, by
maintaining the propaganda bureau.
''If the Soviet pleads inability to con-
troll the Third Internationale," he said,
''it makes virtual confession that there
is political power within its territorial
itrricHintjOy1 cI1rorinr the dCrnina tin o.
government, hence the real sovereign.
I'm that case, the Soviet government
does not exercise sovereignty and the
United States should withdraw recogni-
ton and treat with the indicated ruler,
not with a subordinate"
DR.. Walsh quoted Commissar Litvin-
off, while in Washington, as saying
there was no mention of the Third In
ternationale in his pledge to President
Roosevelt. He declared the Soviet COM
missar had told correspondents they
must not read into it more than was
intended.
IF the Third Internationale is not in
cluded." Walsh added. words have lost
their meaning. If Mr.. Litvinoff pro-
tests that the United States must not
read into the document more than was
intended, the American public has
every right to expect that the Presi-
dent of the United States will not per-
init Mr.. Iitvinof to read out of the
documents the very thing that was
intended"
Attack on Roosevelt.
DR.. Walsh declared that on October
%, government organ in Moscow had
printed savage attack" passed by
the Soviet censor on President Roose-
welt, on the N. r. A. and the American
Federation of Labor This attack de-
clared, he said, that "the struggle of
the working classes of the United States
against Roosevelt's plan must be
waged only under the leadership
of the Communist party-and pushing
forward the program for a revolu-
tionary issue from the crisis
The important point here" said DR..
Walsh, sis not what numbers of the
American Communist party may do,
but that this hostile provocation to
violence should have been launched
with Soviet approval at the very mo-
ment Mr.. Litvinof was preparing to
start for Washington bearing the olvie
branch and uttering his usual guar
antees about international peace"
Success Rests on Soviet.
The political success or failure of
the recognition experiment" he con-
tended, rests on the shoulders of the
Soviet government, which is now under
solemn covenant, openly and volun-
tarily arrived at, not only to disassoci-
ate itself from, but to end, the Third
, Internationale. Delay or further eva
sion can result in only one logical con-
clusion-unwillingn to comply
1T cannot be too often or too en-
phatically repeated that if the Soviet
government persists in clinging to the
Third Internationale, it will nullify the
gesture towards international peace and
normal relations, initiated by President
Roosevelt, and will render abortive
futile and ridiculous the recent ex-
change of correspondence"