Evening star., 1933-10-22
WHITE HOUSE GETS
QUSS|ANPROI!GIS
Foes of Soviet Rule DepIore
ParIey Looking to Re-
neWal of Relations.

Protests against recognition OF the
Soviet government by the United States
were lodged yesterday with President
Roosevelt by an-Americans In
New York and Washington.
The Central Executive Board OF the
United Russian National Organizations
in America communicated to the White
House a telegram deploring such &C
ton and requesting reconsideration OF
the matter by the Chief Executive. The
text Of the telegram follows:
THE Central Executive Board of the
United Russian National Organizations
in this country, representing tens OF
thousands of American citizens Of Rus
sian extraction, is profoundly disturbed
over the rumor, which we hope is not
true, that you are contemplating OPEN
ing negotiations with Soviet murderers
of the Russian people and that there
is a possibility Of your recognizing the
Moscow commiSsars as de Jure gov
eminent. In the name of humanity
and Christian civilization We lmplore
you to abandon this plan before it is
too late"
Prince Among Signers.
The telegram was signed by Boris
Brasol, criminologist. lawyer and au-
thor of New York; Prince Paul Chav-
chavadze, Rev. Alexander Kukulevsky
and Igor Sikorsky, famed aeronautic
engineer.
The Central Executive Board is COM
posed Of more than 20 Russian organi-
cations located along the Atlantic sea-
board, which include Russian peasants
who settled in the United States before
the war, refugees who fed Russia when
the revolution occurred, and representa-
tives of Russia in this country in an
oficial capacity at that time.
The Russian National Committee In
Washington added its opposition in q
telegram to the White House which
read:
1.-THE Russian National Committee in
Washington. representing American
citizens of Russian extraction resident
in this city, join their voice to the COM
munication OF the United Russian Ma
tional Organizations protesting against
recognition Of Soviet Russia"
Professor as Official
This communication was signed by
DR.. Paul Galtsoff, president OF the
Washington committee DR.. Leonid
Strakhovsky, vice president; Trina
MishtoWt, treasurer, and Vladimir
Gsovski secretary.
DR.. Strakhovsky, who is professor OF
modern European history at George
town Foreign Service School. declared:
THE Soviet government does not repre-
sent the Russian people. 1t is a dicta-
torship of the proletariat in which less
than two million of the population have
. share.
Present agitation for recognition of
Soviet Russia is based largely upon the
supposed trade benefits that diplomatic
relations would lead to, but these are
imaginary.
Sees Objection in East.
"There is. of course. also the irrefut-
able fact that the Soviet government
does not recognize the international
obligations of the preceding govern
mentS. that is. the Gar and Kerensky.
And finally, there are dangers of reper-
cussions in the Far East of recognition
by the United States, for there is a
group in Japan which is certain to re-
gard 1t as an inimical act on the part
Of the United States in view of present
Far Eastern conditions"
The possibility of boycott among
the Russian Americans in the United
States against Soviet goods in case of
recognition was indicated by DR.. Strak-
hovsky.