The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-28
SOViETCRiSfST
ONLY ONE OF
LONG SERIES
US. Experience With Reds
Repeats That OF Other
Great Powers
By HOBART c. MONTEE
copyright, 1885, United Press)

Copyright, 1885, United Press)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2S. (UP)
United States-Soviet Russian re-
lations. brought to the breaking
point by this country's emphatic
protest against Communist propa-
ganda activities, are following the
pattern OF other. nations disillu-
sioning experiences with the So
viets, in the opinion of veteran
diplomatic observers here.
The record of the Soviets' dip
lomatic relations with world pow
ers is punctuated with frequent
protests little less emphatic than
that delivered by U. S. Ambassa-
dor William C. Bullitt.
Most of the large nations-and
some of the small ones-have ex-
perienced the same difficulties.
the same establishments and the
same broken pledges of which the
state department complained 50
bitterly to the Soviet foreign Of
flee.
The record includes Great Bril-
tain's long and troublesome trade
and diplomatic relations with the
Soviets and Germany's many DIFF
ficulties with Moscow, chiefly over
Soviet propaganda and subversive
activities.
1t includes sharp exchanges Of
diplomatic notes between France
and Soviet Russia and the recall
of one Soviet ambassador to
France; similar protests by the
Polish government and Estonia's
protests that an attempted armed
revolution in Estonia in 1924 was
organized in and financed by So,
Wet Russia.
1t embraces Mexico's protest
against Soviet interference in the
internal affairs of Mexico and the
severance of diplomatic relations
between the countries in 1890;
Switzerland's early difficulties
with the Soviet mission there IN
1918 which ended with the depor-
tation of its members and a con,
feSsion of the chief of the mission
that its members had engaged in
propaganda and subversive activi-
ties.
The record of Soviet relations
with other countries is filled with
citations of broken pledges. In
practically every instance recogni-
Ition was conditioned upon pledges
by the Soviets to refrain from
hostile acts or subversive activi-
ties against the political and So
cial order of the government
granting the recognition. Likewiso
in almost every case the recognize
ing government complained Off
cially and bitterly that these
pledges had been violated.
The British and Soviet govern
ments signed a trade agreement
March 16, 1921, under which each
agreed "to refrain from hostile
actions or undertakings against
the other, and from conducting
outside it's own borders any Off
cial propaganda, direct or indi,
rect, against the institutions at
the other"
The Soviet trade mission estab-
Iished headquarters in London and
on Sept. 7, 1921 the British gov
crnment protested that:
an spite of all the professio rs
of good faith on the part of the
Soviet government, there have not
been undated indications of bit
ter hostility toward this country,
its dominions and dependencies y
Britain again protested on May
20, 1929 that the subversive com
munistic activities had not been
checked and on October "a, 1924,
submitted documentary evidence
of a communist plot.
On May &c, 1927, Britain sew
cred diplomatic relations with So
Wet Russia, following police raid
upon the premises of the ARGOS,
Ltd" a Soviet trade organization,
and on the offices of the Russian
trade delegation in London. IN
severing the relations the British
government declared that:
Recent examination by police
on the premis of ARGOS. Limited
and of the Russian trade delega-
ton has conclusively proved that
both military espionag eand sub
versive activities throughout the
British empire were directed and
carried out from the headquarters,
of the Russian trade delegation
Soviet-British relations were re-
newed in December 1929, but the
British protests against commun-
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