Evening star., 1933-11-19
BULL|TT TAKES Up
DEBT DISCUSSIONS
Commercial and Political
PactS With Soviet Wait
on Settlement.
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friendly and that our nations, hence
forth, may cooperate for their mutual
benefit and for the preservation of the
peace OF the world"
Neither Russia of today nor the
United States have any ambition Of ex-
panding their territories at the expense
of another nation, and peace is the
paramount policy of both governments.
The Soviet government has been 60
ing through a period of economic and
social reconstruction. For the Soviet 1t
is vital not to become involved in any
international conf1agration. The same
thing applies to the United States. The
work of economic reconstruction in this
country requires an era of peace.
Even when the governments of the
two countries were not on speaking
terms" the American ideas for peace
and disarmament found a ready and
willing listener in the Soviet govern
ment LitvinofT himself has been a
strong advocate Of peace and disarma-
ment although his ideas were of such
radical nature that they we're never
taken seriously by the Geneva diplo-
mats. He advocated complete and i'm
mediate disarmament Hence, he was
suspected by the other powers of hav-
ing some sinister motive behind his
proposal.
May Compromise Ideals.
1t may be that a blending of the
moderate limitation OF arms suggestions
Of the American Government with the
drastic disarmament ideas of the Soviet
government might give some practical
results
In any case, the Russians are bank
ing on Americas coed will to maintain,
If possible, peace in the world.
But. in spite Of the Soviet desire to
be at peace with all the nations. Russia
has ample reason to be worried about
the aims of the Japanese military in
regard to Western Siberia and eSpe-
cially the maritime provinces and the
port Of Vladivostock
The Russian and the Japanese gov
ernmentS have been for the last IL
months like two cats facing each other.
and ready to jump at each others
throat.
The Soviet government feels that in
such an eventuality they would always
have the moral support of the Ameri-
cap government
The documents shown to Litvinoff
last week were regarding the part the
United States played between the years
l9l8-l92l in the Siberian expedition has
proved concluSively to the Soviet for
eign commiSsar that far from having
any aggressive intentions, the American
Government even at that time had
gone out of its way to preserve the in
tegrity Of the Russian territory. And
even in a minor case, like the occupa-
ton of the Province of Bessarabia by
the Rumanian government. the United
States Government has refused con-
stantly to recognize that occupation
although all other nations have recog-
nized il.
EntanglementS Stunned.
Because of these facts, and because
of the still existing menace that the
japanese military leaders may risk an
adventure in the maritime provinces,
the Soviet government desires to
strengthen its international position by
some sort of political agreement with
the United States.
OF course, the Soviet leaders fully
realize that such an agreement must be
extremely non-committal because nei-
ther the President nor the Senate
could consider anything which may
mean entanglements.
But even loose and non -commiteal
pact reasserting the provisions of the
Kellogg pact and including the def1ni-
ton Of what constitutes an aggressor
would be acceptable to the Soviet gov
ernment.