The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-08
NEW ECONOMIC
PACT IS GOAL
OF LITvINOFF
Proposes Live and Let Live
Treaty for Russia and
United States.
ROOSEVELT is SILENT
President Keeping His Own
Counsel in Steps for
Recognition.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINIMS
Soripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Nov. So Once
the problems leading to recognition
are disposed of by President RooSe-
welt and Soviet Foreign CommisSar
Maxim LitvinOff, the Soviet states
man was expected to discuss a pact
of economic, if not political, non
aggression between his country and
the United States.
The Russian foreign minister
holds that in the present grave
world economic situation there is
just as much need for nations to
forswear economic war against one
another as to sign pledges like the
Kellogg pact outlawing military ag-
erosion.
1t is known that if and when
normal diplomatic relations are re-
stored between the Soviet Union
and the United States, some kind
OF trade agreement will be at
tempted.
Live and Let Live
And these trade relations, far
from being of the throat va
riety which have been the bugaboo
Of many in this country, must be
on ive-and-let-l live basis. On this
Mr.. Litvinoff himself is emphatic.
Far from fomenting world revo-
luton, or attempting to undermine
the political or economic structure
of other countries by dumping or
other harmful practices, the Soviet
Union, its commiSsar for foreign af-
fairs insists. wants no such upheav-
ais. They retard world recovery.
Under his guidance, the Soviet re-
publicS only recently have conclud-
ed a whole series of nonaggression
pactS, both political and economic,
with their European neighbors,
among them some of the principal
powers.
Supported United States Proposal
Without being in any sense aIli-
anceS, these pacts pledge the sig
natorieS to wage neither political
nor economic war against each
other, and to abstain from entering
into any international combinations
for that purpose.
AT the London economic confer
ence Mr.. Litvinoff strongly supported
the American proposal for a tariff
truce, but went step farther Sug-
costing its scope be widened to make
it instead a prolonged economic
peace. A truce, he said, presupposes
war and a resumption of fighting.
whereas the world now requires a
complete cessation of all forms of
war.
1t was a remarked coincidence
here that the very moment Soviet
RuSsiaS protagoniSt of economic
nonaggression was landing in this
country, Great Britain was denounc-
ing the London tariff truce signed
at Americas behest.
Keeping Own Counsel
Just how far President Roosevelt
is prepared to go with the Russian
formula is not yet known He is
keeping his own counsel and his
famous visitor, after a first contact
with correspondents yesterday, re-
solved to do likewise until the Presi-
dent speaks.
1t is thought, however, that the
President vii confine their talks to
the fundamentals of recognition and
leave trade pact details and other
agreements for others to conclude.
A pact Of political nonaggresSion
would enormously strengthen the
Soviet Union in the far east. She
fears japanese aggression. She is
determined not to become an ag-
gressor herself. She would like.
therefore, to get as many powers as
possible to join with her in re-
inforcing the admittedly weak Kel-
logg pact outlawing aggressive war.
Supplies a Definition
Within recent months Mr.. Lit
vinoff has concluded treaties on
nonaggression with upward of a
dozen countries, including Italy,
Fance and Poland. Furthermore,
where the Kellogg pact merely out
laws aggression, without defining
what an aggressor is, the Litvinoff
formula supplies definition.
An aggressor nation, according to
Mr. Litvinoff, is one which first
declares war on another; second. in
vades another; third, blockades an
others coast; fourth, attacks or
permits attacks on another by
armed bands, air or naval forces.
This country has hesitated off,
cially to subscribe to any such IRON
bound definition Yet the President
himself defines an aggressor as one
which inyades the territory Of an
other, and is on record in favor Of
implementing the Kellogg pact to
give it teeth.