The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18


der-took In the letters, were the fol-
lowing:
/. Debts and Claims: The two Gov
ernments merely announced that
There has taken place an exchange
of views with regard to methods Of
settling outstanding questions of in
debtednesS and claims that permit us
to hope for speedy and satisfactory
solution of these questions" and in
the meantime the U.S.S.R. agrees to
cancel all claims inherited from prior
governments against American Ma
tionals, and valves claims arising out
of American military intervention in
Siberia after January, 1918.
Re-States Religious Policy
2. Religion: Litvinoff restaSed the
long standing policy which guaran-
tees tolerance of all religious observ-
ances of foreigners in Russia Incl
dentally taking occasion to cite the
fixed policy which the Soviet Union
long ago declared in specific DEGREES,
which guarantees the right to Gree
exercise of liberty of conscious and
religious worshippers."
3. Economic Espionage: Litvinoff
informed Roosevelt that "the wide
spread opinion that the dissemina
ton of economic information from
the U.SS.R. is allowed only In SO
far as this information has been pub
lished in newspapers or magazines
is erroneous The right to obtain
economic information is limited in
the U.SSR. as in other countries
only in the case of business and pro-
duction secrets and in the case OF
the employment of forbidden meth
DDS bribery, theft, fraud etc. to OBJ
tain such information. The category
of business and production secrets
naturally include the official econo-
mic plans in SO far as they have not
been made public, but not individual
reports concerning the production
conditions and the general conditions
of individual enterprises"
q. Propaganda: The Soviet Gov
eminent restated its fixed policy to
respect scrupulously the indisputable
right of the United States to order
it's own life within its own jurisdic-
tion in its own way and to refrain
from interfering in any manner with
the internal affairs of the United
States, its territories or possessions =
Roosevelt supplied the same guar
antee.
1t was agreed also that both gov
ernments will notify the others coun-
sci in the event of arrest of ma
| tional
The announcement of recognition
had been expected throughout today
by corps Of eXhilarated news cor
respondents and others who followed
the ten days preliminary converse
tions. Confidence reached virtually
absolute certainty when Litvinoff
emerged from a long talk with
Roosevelt in the White House, BEAM
ed on reporters under the white
columned portico, announced he
MIGHT make a statement later, and
met excited questions: When?
Howl" with, Doesn't the President
have press correspondence today?''
He added that he did rot intend
to go to Warm Springs, Georgia, to
see Roosevelt, but would remain in
the Capital for some days. Then he
stepped into a sleek American Of
ficial limousine and disappeared
down the cuiving avenue. The re-
porters dashed t. their telephones
and on to q conference with I'm
der Secrstary Phillips OF the State
Deusrtraent. He reinfroced conyic-
lions by affahly explaining why
truckloads of documents were re-
moved last night from the Russian
embassy here, an incident which had
mystified some.
The property was moved by the
United States Army to storshouse
where documents could be spread
out and examined by both American
and Soviet representatives. In fur
ther conversations, Phillips said, for
some Of the documents would have
TO be consulted. To an inquiry az
to whether this in itself did not
imply recognition, the officials s,nil-
ingly advised reporters to use ther
own Judgment. They did, smiling
broadly back.
Then Phillips presented Assistant
Secretary Payer, who had just been
transferred from the State Depart
ment to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation. Payer, who had been
specializing for several months in
studying Soviet-American tr d e
proceeded to make a long and con-
ciliatory speech about how cooper
alton, reciprocity and, neighborness
are still the keywords of world re-
covery, even from an isolated point
of view" and thus it appeared that
the last gesture before recognition
was completed. Payer will handle
the vast business of r. F. G. loans
for the buying of American goods
for the workers and farmers of Rus
STA. His speech was interpreted i'm
mediately as forecasting a liberal
U. S. policy in this important mat
ter.
Long before this, the White House
had set forward the hour of the
Presidents regular press conference
another hint to what was coming
The press, more sympathetic and
eager for successful completion OF
the negotiations each day that I'M
certainty hung over them, began al
once to speculate jubilantly on the
extent to which negotiations after
today may lay the basis for COOP