Russian Bonds: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department, House of Representatives, on H. R. 132, Resolution to Investigate in Re Payment of Interest and Principal on Russian Bonds ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Debts, Public |
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Admiral Kolchak advances Agreement of trust allied American amount April Arms Union Metallic authority Bolshevik Boris Bakhmeteff British BRUMBAUGH CHAIRMAN Congress contractors contracts copy debts ELLIOTT ernment Exhibit facts funds gentlemen GOODWIN government of Russia H. S. KIMBALL HAWKINS Industries Board interest J. P. Morgan January July June Kerensky government Kolchak government LEFFING LEFFINGWELL loans manufacture MASON MCFADDEN ment MILES Moscow National City Bank November 15 obligations Omsk Ordnance organization paid payment Petrograd Poliakoff POLK President provisional government purchase purpose question railroad recognized record referred Remington Arms Union Remington Rifle representative repudiation resolution Root mission Russian ambassador Russian bonds Russian Government Russian rifles Secretary Siberia SIEGEL smokeless powder Soviet statement supplemental agreement supplies thing tion to-day Treasury Department troops trustees Ughet understand Union Metallic Cartridge War Industries Board Washington York
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Page 40 - Russia does not aim at the domination of other nations or at depriving them of their national patrimony, or at occupying by force foreign territories, but that its object is to establish a durable peace on the basis of the rights of nations to decide their own destiny. The Russian Nation does not lust after the strengthening of its power abroad at the expense of other nations. Its aim is not to subjugate or humiliate any one.
Page 43 - May 26, 1919 The Allied and Associated Powers feel that the time has come when it is necessary for them once more to make clear the policy they propose to pursue in regard to Russia. It has always been a cardinal axiom of the Allied and Associated Powers to avoid interference in the internal affairs of Russia.
Page 40 - The Government deems it to be its right and duty to declare now that free Russia does not aim at the domination of other nations or at depriving them of their national patrimony, or at occupying by force foreign territories, but that its object is to establish a durable peace on the basis of the rights of nations to decide their own destiny.
Page 44 - ... with the Soviet Government of Moscow. They are therefore disposed to assist the government of Admiral Kolchak and his associates with munitions, supplies, and food to establish themselves as the government of All-Russia, provided they receive from them definite guarantees that their policy has the same ,object in view as that of the allied and associated powers.
Page 43 - This proposal and a later offer to relieve the distress among the suffering millions of Russia broke down through the refusal of the Soviet Government to accept the fundamental condition of suspending hostilities while negotiations or the work of relief was proceeding.
Page 43 - Conference assemble than they endeavored to bring peace and order to Russia by inviting representatives of all the warring Governments within Russia to meet them in the hope that they might be able to arrange a permanent solution of Russian problems.
Page 43 - Some of the Allied and Associated Governments are now being pressed to withdraw their troops and to incur no further expense in Russia, on the ground that continued intervention shows no prospect of producing an early settlement. They are prepared, however, to continue their assistance on the lines laid down below, provided they are satisfied that it will really help the Russian people to liberty, selfgovernment, and peace.
Page 43 - The Allied and Associated Governments now wish to declare formally that the object of their policy is to restore peace within Russia by enabling the Russian people to resume control of their own affairs through the instrumentality of a freely elected Constituent Assembly and to restore peace along its frontiers by arranging for the settlement of disputes in regard to the boundaries of the Russian state and its relations with its neighbours through the peaceful arbitration of the League of Nations.
Page 45 - Government of 1917, all the pledges and decrees of which we have accepted. The final solution of the question of delimiting the frontiers between Russia and Poland must, however, in conformity with the principles set forth above, be postponed till the meeting of the Constituent Assembly.
Page 44 - Seventhly, that as soon as a Government for Russia has been constituted on a democratic basis, Russia should join the League of Nations and co-operate with the other members in the limitation of armaments and of military organization throughout the world.