Evening star., 1933-11-08
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SpEEDED, limiting
CLIMAX THIS WEEK
Russian Calls on Roosevelt
Again After Seeing Hull
and Others.
RECOGNITION EXPECTED
TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Foreign Secretary Closely Guarded
as Official Conversations
Are Opened.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
Maxim Litvinoff. the Soviet commits
sar for foreign affairs, began his ardu-
GUS task of discussing Russia's recogni-
ton by the United States at IL am. to-
day, when he called at the State De-
partment
The iovial and rubicund representa-
tive of the Soviet government re-
manned closeted for nearly two hours
with American Secretary of State Hull
and his advisers, UnderSecretary Will
liam Phillips. Assistant Secretary Wal
ton Moore and William Bullitt, special
assistant to the Secretary
Shortly before pm. the meeting was
adjourned, and Litvinoff went to the
White House, where he lunched with
President Roosevelt, and remained to
discuss the general problem of recog-
milton. Mr.. Litvinoff is expected to call
again at the White House tomorrow
night. when he will discuss with the
President the results of his conversa-
ton with the American officials and
it is likely something conclusive will be
announced uefore the end of this we Elk.
conversation with NJ. Litvinoff, intro
duced him to the Washington corre-
spondents at the regular press confer
ence at the State Department.
Litvinof expressed delight at being in
Washington and the following jokinp
communique was read There was a
very friendly private discussion of some
outstanding questions involved in the
matter of relations between U. S. A. and
U. s. S. r. These conversations were
preliminary and detailed proposals were
not discussed. The conversations will
be resumed in the Office of the Secretary
Of State this afternoon at PM"
Plans to Sail Wednesday.
The Russian leader expects to sail
from New York next Wednesday on
the Majestic.
Litvinof was escorted to the State
Department by James C. Dunn. chief of
the protocol division, and proceeded
Immediately to the diplomatic waiting
room Promptly at IL o'clock Under
secretary Phillips Joined Litvinof and
escorted him across the hall to Hull's
office. As they entered, the Secretary
tended his hand to the Russion envoy
whose acquaintance he first made at
the London Economic Conference.
State Department corridors were
crowd with government workers anx-
ious for glimpse of the first Soviet
representative ever welcomed by the
United States The building was heav-
ly guarded by local and Federal police.
Litvinoff's short ride to the State
Department in Dunns limousine was
uneventful He was surrounded by
motor cycle policemen as he drove
through the streets.
The conversations between Litvinoff
and Hull are reported to have been con-
fined mostly to a cursory examination
of the outstanding questions between
Russia and the United States-that is
to say, the question of Communist
propaganda, American conhscated prop
erty in Russia and the debts contracted
in the United States by the previous
Russian governments.
Main Principle Sought.
The discussion of these outstanding
questions, the details of which are con-
tanned in a voluminous memorandum,
undoubtedly will take time and will
have to be handled eventually by tech
sides. But the main thing at the present
moment is to reach an agreement in
principle which viii permit the Presi-
dent to resume diplomatic relations
with the Soviet Republic and also to
lay the foundation of the future COM
mercial treaty with Russia.
While the Russians lay stress prin-
cipally on the diplomatic recognition,
the administration is greatly interested
in the amount of raw and manufac-
tured products Russia can purchase.
1t is felt the discussion are far more
important and full of consequences
than those the President had last
Spring with the representatives of the
Western European governments and
especially with Ramsay Macdonald and
Edouard Herriot.
Those conversations, while interest
ing, dealt mainly with what one may
call abstract subjects, such as the pos
sibility Of reaching an agreement at
the London Economic Conference and
an agreement at the Disarmament Con-
ference at Geneva At both these con-
ferenceS there were too many nations
present and too many divergent ma
tional interests to make the interest of
those conversations more than aca-
denic.
Concrete Facts Discussed.
The situation is entirely different in
the case of Russia. The matters which
the President will discuss with Lit
vinoff are concrete and concern only
the United States and the Soviet Re-
public. 1t is question of dollars and
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