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...ownership of Russian money or goods is reconsidered by the British courts, since a court decision, already handed down in England, denies Soviet ownership of confiscated Russian property. Now a test cast is being brought forward to see if this decision will be reversed. If it is not, the Bolshevist representative, Mr. Krassin, admits that trade is impossible. It is interesting to consider why the agreement should have been signed before the case was decided...
Lenin's reasons are obvious. The trade agreement means but one thing to him, prestige. Kronstadt is in revolution, cities are seething with, unrest, Southern Russia is in arms. The recognition of the Soviets by Great Britain will be a tremendous weapon against this anti-Bolshevist movement. For Lenin will not call it revolution and proclamations will be scattered broadcast declaring the Soviet Russian has compelled capitalistic Great Britain to accept her terms...
...reasons. In the first place, most French peasants own their farms, and the private ownership of property is thus widely distributed. And since food prices are so high, the agricultural population, who are in the majority, receive a distinct financial benefit. The French peasant sees no advantage in the Bolshevist doctrines, and will be slow to adopt them...
Ambitious capitalists like Washington D. Vanderlip, who dream of trading with Russia in terms of three-billion dollar contracts, must have been shocked at the decision of the United States to deport Ludwig Martens, so-called Ambassador of the Russian Bolshevist Government. When all that was lacking to complete Mr. Vanderlip's gigantic deal was this country's official recognition of the Soviets, the Government blasts all hope of tapping the mythical gold-mine in Russia by ejecting the Bolshevist Ambassador. Why deport a billion-dollar man in this fashion...
...which would come from us. Can we believe that the economic advantages of trade with Russia are so great that we should rid ourselves of all aversion to Soviet ideas and enter into an agreement--which involves recognition--for the sake of a gain as uncertain at bottom as Bolshevist Russia itself...