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D Cc CO Dec 2 29 The The United States recognized the Union of ot Socialist Soviet RePublics Re- Re Republics Publics otherwise th r Russia as a le loot logu l' l nation Nov cn ir Nov g 1933 There are a great many people i i high places in Washington who I I wish that we e had never established dt diplomatic relations with the C Com Com- n j government but who doul dout see any way to take it back short I of practically ally declaring war on I Such nations as fiS the Netherlands Switzerland Yugo and Portugal Per Par ParI I who consistently refused to toj toi i j take tako Russia seriously ly arc are in a better better bet bet- 1 ter tel position than is this CO country y i For the act of formally breaking ettI ott ett I II I 1 diplomatic relations with any nation I Is a prelude to war and we dont don't I j want ant to go to I iwar var forn I Russia or any other country I I j I The League of f Nations has eI e c ci i I gelled Russia because its attack on Finland gives the lie Ho to all of the tho Russian protestations of nc pe 1 oj I Intentions toward tho the rest of or toe the world The Tho Federal government m In n nl l Washington is doing all that can call b done dono short of war to help Finland A government subsidiary the time Import Export-Import Lank Dank has lent 10 million dollars to Finland to e o that country to buy bur whatever it needs from this country or or anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where else except implements or ur war Tho The American Red Cross is a quasi governmental institution with the tho President of oC the Unit United cl clI States as ns its president ox-officio ox is I acting as an ln agency to lo transmit tl supplies of or cyer every kind to I Former President Hoover Hoovel is heading mead head unofficial commit commit- committee ing a volunteer tee teo to raise laise funds to assist Finland In tho the Dog DOl house Very definitely Hu Russa sa is in tie house dog so 50 far as official Washington Wash Wasa- InKton ington is concerned The American Ambassador Mr 11 Steinhart is still In Moscow l or was at last reports and Mr 11 the Russian Am Ambassador st still III occupies pies the magnificent mu mag- munificent palace which 3 Russia's I embassy in Washington But nut nobody nobody no no- body goes gocs to Mr III parties parties par par- ties all any glom moie not oven even the lime you yet u ung us tig I who sold President Roosevelt on the idea of or recognizing roc ing h the tho t Communist government of nus Russia h I I It would bo ho putting it too loo strongly ly to say that thal anybody in important l go circles Is all ail out out-an-out Communist t in the souse of of being a n member of oC the Cola COIl I Party but it is i undeniable that many of them filled with the tho spirit of or social uplift believed that I Russia had found the tho answer to the tile troubles of the tho dog under by its I I hl publicized highly scheme of oC putting all the tho workers into c operal eo Live c I Continued on page e four I This Week In Washington D. D C. C Continued tram from page one units and taking all the land anti and wealth away from rom those who had bad it ft Intellectuals Quieting Down Any suggestion that Perhaps the tho tortes tories to tile tae contrary which len leaked d dout out or of Russia Russi were not quite true used to Abe met with jibes and SIH lJ b the earnest some of whom had the ear of p o opie pIe in very high places Now whatever what what- ever ever their real beliefs they air Cor singing small in the face faco of th the popular wave of over conduct first in makin an alliance with Hitler who for all that to hate and now in In cracking down on a little nation hardly a tenth its size a nation nn- nn tion moreover which has won the tho ungrudging respect rEsI of everybody e y The 1110 l Finnish Russo-Finnish has bas hasa P. P definite bearing on the ot of the Lies Dies ee pt 11 tile the HOllS House ot of ReprEsentatives the title of which is The Committee ItO to Investigate Investigate In- In un rn in inthe the United States The Dies C Con has been hot on the trail ot of Com There has been no anybody who wants to be a lt is not at liberty to ne De Uric or that anybody be t prevented from preaching I doctrine That is a liberty I by the Bill of I II But ut what the DIes Committee has been beon trying ro do is to smell out outI I Communists who do not openly aCknowledge their affiliation to dis cUs I coyer cover whether they are really s crt t agents or of RussIa tryIng to und undermine under under- r- r mine the AmerIcan and to bring their operations out aut Into the theop op open n. n Undercover York Work GOIng On I Evidence thus tar far riven lyen before the committee has satisfied mr many ny observers that cover under work worl bY Communists directly in in the pay of n Russia has been een going ou on for or a Tong long time LIme and that many persons in many w walks of life have been led led into gIving support to Com in ed cd activities in the honest belief that they were working for the best interests of America Such conclusions are distasteful ful to many manyI I people eople who cant can't bring themselves to believe that Russia would do such a dirty trick as t to tr try to overthrow the United States government by the method known to Communists ts as boring from within So tar far very little positive proof that woUld as evidence in n a cOurt of justice has been un- un and none play gray ever eyer be turned up It Is not easy to prove anything on that kind of a tor Nobody doubts that Aaron Burr had treasonable intentions against the United hut but he was acquitted acquitted ac- ac quitted by the court which tried hIm However the outlook now is that Mr Dies will get the tho appropriation ho needs to continue his investigation lion tion of American un activities TIlo Tho Russians have hac practically insured d' d that by demonstrating to the world that they aro not the friends or of mankind which their admirers admirers ad- ad in this country have been taught to believe but cold blooded ruthless aggressors oct O to domin dominate te as much of the world as they can gaIn control ot of by force as' as aswell well as asby I by stealth J |