Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allies,--have been on the borders of hysteria. Ultimatums have passed from Britain to Kemal, and, height, of insolence, Kema! has demanded Eastern Thrace. Moreover, the Nationalist leader, accepting the Allied terms, has added the proviso that be shall continue military operations during the proposed conference and that Red Russia, Persia, and Bulgaria be included on the commission...
...said in part: "The Russian policy of America stands upon debatable ground. Never before have we pursued a foreign policy quite comparable to our present policy toward the Soviet Republic of Russia. It is a policy which makes the internal economic structure of Russia a fundamental in the question of recognition. This policy of non-recognition so well expressed in the Hughes note of March 25, 1921, purposes an unjustifiable interference in the internal affairs of the Russian nation...
...What is this recognition which we have denied to Russia for five years; what must a nation do to be recognized? Well, there are two theories of recognition in use today. One is in accord with the trend of international law and is the basis of the Russian policy of the European nations; the other is the American foreign policy toward Russia. New the first theory holds that the recognizing nation need only be satisfied that the petitioning government possesses the essential characteristics of a state, namely that it is the sovereign power in a free and independent nation...
...When we tell Russia that her recognition will depend upon her internal organization we are taking an aggressive, and an offensive attitude. For as Jefferson said concerning the recognition of the French Republic after its career of terrorism,--'We surely cannot deny to any nation that right whereon our own is founded, that it may govern itself according to what form it pleases, and change that form at its own will, and that it may transact business with foreign nations through whatever organ it thinks proper'. Thus, over a century ago, a great American statesman declared the foreign policy...
...history, and our own likes and dislikes must not be permitted to dictate the foreign policy of the American people. The consideration of the economic structure of a nation petitioning for recognition has never before controlled America's foreign policy; it must not now prescribe our relations with Russia. If we are to remain stead fast to our policy of the past, the American policy first voiced by Jefferson, we must abandon our present unjustifiable stand and make recognition of Russia depend, not upon the internal structure she has chosen, but upon international relations between Russia and America