Evening star., 1933-10-15
RUSSIA OPPOSED
TO TRADE AGENTS
Amtorg Chairman Hits Activ-
tiles in U. S., Marked in
Last Three Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Soviet Russia is tired of intermedi-
aries dabbling into Russo American
relations to get business for themselves.
Peter A. Bogdanoff, chairman Of the
board of directors of Amtorg, the So
Wet governments commercial agency
In this country, has made it clear that
Moscow needs no go-betweens In deal
lngs with the United States Government
and American manufacturers.
The same policy has been followed
by the Moscow government in its rela-
tions with other powers. 1t has dis
couraged organizations Of business men
designed to handle commercial negotia-
tionS with the Soviet Union, and insist
ed on dealing with individual manufac-
turerS.
For more than three years various
groups of individuals have been work
ing in the United States to organize
export corporations to trade with the
Soviet Union. Bogdanoff and other
Soviet representatives have froWned on
all such efforts and let it be known the
American Russian Chamber OF Com
merce in New York is the only BODY
in this country which can supply cor
rect information about the poSsibllltles
Of increasing trade with Russia.
Soviet Russia has been making pur-
chases abroad this year at the rate OF
S16,0OO,O00 a month. but the United
States is supplying only about 3 per
cent of these purchases and is now
sixth in the list of countries selling to
the Moscow government. In 1890 this
country was first and supplied nearly
one-fourth of the Russian imports.
A tall, lanky boy who played third
base on the Episcopal High School base
ball team at Alexandria, Va, more than
SO years ago. defeating all amateur
teams in the State, now Is Assistant
Secretary of State. He still Is keen
base ball fan and exhibits two knotted
fingers as evidence of his diamond
activities.
That early devotee to the great Amer
lean game is Judge R. Walton Moore,
who recently replaced Raymond Moley
in the State Department.
DR.. John Charles Philips, Boston
naturalist and brother of Undersecre-
tary of State William Philips, will rep
resent the United States at an inter-
national conference in London on Oc-
to5er 81 to discuss plans for perpetu-
ating a game preserve created in the
Belgian Kongo by Albert, King Of the
Belgians.
Naturalists and big game hunters Of
all nations hope to build a museum in
this preserve and eventually extend pro-
lection to the wild life Of Asia as we'll
An international agreement for the pro-
lection of Africa flora and fauna was
framed in 1900. but never ratified. A
revised agreement will be prepared at
the London meeting which sportsmen
and scientists hope to have approved
by all the leading powers interested In
Africa and Asia.
New light probably will be thrown
on the late Dwight w. Morrow's con-
ciliation efforts in Mexico by a biog-
raphy of the late Senator from New
Jersey and Ambassador to Mexico,
which is in preparation by Edward G.
Lowry, former Washington newspaper
correspondent and author of "WaNhing-
ton Close Ups" Mrs. Morrow selected
Lowry to write the life histary Of her
late husband, and he now is at the
Morrow estate in Englewood, N. j.,
making study Of the statesman's pri-
vate papers.