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Show JSS ANTI-BOLSHEVISTS ASK RECOGNITION I I 4 9 fr AAA j. GOVERNMENT OF I S LAV GROUPS I FOB III PARIS I France, Great Britain and United States to Be Asked ! for Recognition RUSSIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY IS CREATED Some of the Members Once Elected as Anti-Lenine Lavmakers PARIS. Feb. 1. (By the Associated Press ) Formal application is about to be made to the governments of France. Great Britain and the United H Sta'oc io recognise the constituent assembly as the present de Jure or rightful exkuinr; government of Rus H sla. The Russian constituent assem- N bly has Just been created at a meet N ing here ot all the Russian elements H opposed to bolsbev ism. for the pup, pose of sinking all differences of opin H ion and presenting a united front N against bolshcvism H President Avskantieff, a member of N the former Kerensky cabinet, of Rus- N in, and presiding oiticer of the con- N ference held her , will call in a few days on Premier Brlsnd of France, and present the application for recognl KERENSKY INVOLVED Alexander Kerensky, head of the fniraer Russian government, hss gone ' to London where he will make a simi-request simi-request of the British government. Boris A Bakhmetefr, Russian am bassador at Washington, is understood to have been requested to present the application to Die United Slates. The precedent Invoked will be the recognition by the allies of the Ser- iLI bian government sei up on the island I of Cortu during the war while Serbia j v. as completely occupied by the cen traj powers. Thirl y-three of the members of the Russian ci.nstitueni assembly created )ifT were elected in Russia in the la' lei par' of RUT In popular vote. These flections were held under bolshevik rule and the bolshevik!, failed to oh tain more than 40 per cent of the seats. Leninc. ihe soviet premier. dissolved Hie assembly on January 18. '.91V when his iollow rs were placed in the minority. A majority of th. members loft Russia, but many were put in jail. Those m -ceeding in ea caping regrouped in Paris and formed "the Russian constituent' assembly." which adopted resolutions containing Ill's.' provisions PROVISIONS ADOPTED ' 1 A declaration of ihe liberty of jH the Russian people in opposition th bolshevik rule. 2 Refusal to recognize any and all treaties, including commercial BgrA-ments, BgrA-ments, entered upon Ith the bolsUt- Ivlki as one of Ihe parties. (This !flB would entail repudiation of the agree-intent agree-intent between Ihe bolshevlki and 'Washington D. Vanderlip by which an i American syndicate headed by Vander-lip Vander-lip was granted large concessions in !H Siberia). j i.'IH 3 The assembly fs against aim1 r I j :nter enl iou in Russian affairs Ir IJ favors commercial relations between H individuals in Russia and other coun j tries, but not with thy bolshevik gov ernment, and also favors lifting or , : !L ' the blockade 4 The assembly is against dismem- ) 'H jherment of Russia and the Bscesslon 'H 1 from Russia ol any of Its former prov iuces. (LlH - 1 UNITED bTATES THANKED In connection with the fourth H 'clause, the constituent i isembly in I serted an expression of "profouuil i gratitude" to the United States for jtho stand it has taken on the fore ioing question and referred especially to the note of Secretary of Slate Col dH by on August 10, 1920. in which hi said the United States governmen' i was opposed io any dismembelluen, ol d Russia. A permanent executive committee composed of M. Avskentleff, M. Kc-r lensky, OtlS s- Minor, Yladrolr Zeu- i . 7.1 vol f. former Russian member of the directorate ai Omsk; Rasil baklov . HI Russia) ambassador in Paris; Paul . iMllukoff, former minister of loreigr I affairs in tbo Kerensky provisional I government M M Vinaver; Alexin-der Alexin-der i. Konov aloft, former Russian iuin-isti iuin-isti r of commerce, and M Maxudo was appointed to draw up resolution to present to the allied government. This committee Includes members ol the Socialists, Cossack and u res Rus-Bian Rus-Bian parlies who claim that not onh were they olected by the vote of the Russian people in Russia, but also that they represented from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 Russians cxilc6 and rein gees. They will ask the government to fix tho status of those refugees wh-i IH are disseminated throughout Europe, but more especially in Pram . |