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Show SOVIET HDTE IT I'HTJP Plea for Resumption of Trade Relations Received Re-ceived From Moscow; Referred to Hughes WASHINGTON. March 23. Karly conalderstioo U to be given to relatione between the I'nited Statca and aoviet Kuiixia, it waa Indicated today at lh alalia d"panmrnl. Formal announcement of any rhanaa In ha ralallona hwwwn lh two aotin-irira aotin-irira or In any of tha rullnaa ly Ihe Wllxm admlnlntratlon may not h made for nm lima, but It waa mada rlrar that alrnuly rrrlaln mndlflradona of Ulna rullnaa allhrr ara under con-aiilrrallon con-aiilrrallon or hava hran mada. TRADE RELATIONS. Thnaa darlnlona ware raachrd Inda-pandrnt Inda-pandrnt of lha appeal from tha aovirt pimnmrnl to I'maidant llur.ltna and Inn American itocmmrnt fr a rc-aiimpilon rc-aiimpilon of trada relatluna lriwrn Ilia I'nllrd Hlatra and llurala. That appral rrarhrxl lh atala ilrpartmrnt liidny from lha Whlla ll'iuaa. Tha appral waa received al lha While llmiae and aent lo the alala da. pariment wiihoul lielnif called to tha attention of I'realdent Harding and It waa firal announce.! that It had not been received. A similar announcement alao was mad at the stale department, but thia aubaequently waa corrected. MOSCOW DELEGATION. In the event of an agreement by the I'nited Htatea tn treat with the Soviets. It waa Indicated that no technical bare would be placed against the entry Into the I'nited Htiitea of a delegation which the Moscow wireless distmtrh lo London Lon-don snld Ihe Soviets proposed to send here to negotiate a trade agreement. It also dcveloiad that n slightly broader view haa been tuken by the department regarding the Issuance of passport and vises. While there has been no Indication of any material relaxation re-laxation of Ihe regulationa. II became known that In certain exceptional cases vises and asaorta would ba authorised. author-ised. RUSSIAN GOLD. The announcement In preaa dispatches dis-patches from Htorkhom that a quantity quan-tity of Kusslan gold now Is on the way from that place to the Cnlted Htatea ulao developed that the American Amer-ican government would r.ot ralee tha queation of tha metal's origin. It waa explalnd, however, that'the partlea to whom It waa consigned would accept It at their own risk. Tha offlrlnl view ia that Ita status cannot lie properly Impugned If It bears the mint mark of any recognised gov. ernment. such as thst of Hweden. which Is reported 10 have been placed on the ronslitnnient. If. after It la received re-ceived and accepted, a claim aa to the origin nr ownership la mude, the queation quea-tion would be one for Ihe courts to deride. The attitude adopted toward Ihe Importation Im-portation of gold, it was explained, la not different from that assumed la Great Hrltaln. LENIN'S DECLARATION. It was alao learned that official confirmation con-firmation of I'tiln'a declatatlon of hia renunciation of many of the prlnclplea of liolshevlam has been received and will be made one cf the bases on which American officials will build their study of the Kusslnn question. It was made dear, however, that Ienlne'a, declarations were not sccepted aa defl. nlte proof that the KusKlan leader actually ac-tually waa contemplating any material alteration of hia methods. The department haa no doubt that he made the statements credited to him. In which he declared Ihul many of the principles of helstievlsm bad proved failure arid that they must haik to capitalism for rehabilitation and stabilization, stabil-ization, but officials sre not unmindful of the statements muny times officially muds In Hussla thut revolutionary leaders would not hesitate to set and speak In any way deemed expedient to further the general plan of worldwide revolution, J |