Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-27 | Page 4 | Cleaver Mr. Martens

oo CLEVER MR. MARTENS. Mr. Martens, who calls himself the 'ambassador of the soviet republic dls-I dls-I closed in his senate testimony that 1 he is a shrewd person and is using his skill to obtain from the United States a more favorable attitude toward the Russian Bolshovik government. Tie wants to reassure this country that his government is not bent upon stirring up a revolution throughout the world and he desires to give this assurance without confessing any weakness, so he announces that the I plans for causing trouble in every 1 country have been abandoned because ' the soviet republic is so strong now It doesn't need to turn the rest of the world topsy-turvy ! That assertion cannot bo true. If tho Bolshevlki do cease stirring up trouble in other countries It will not be because of their strength at home sc much as their desire to bring about more friendly relations and get the ar- I tides they so greatly need. Mr. Martens slyly mentions the millions mil-lions of dollars that roposo in Bolshevik Bolshe-vik treasuries. He tells the senators that his government wants to spend that money here for material manufactured manu-factured in the United States. The "ambassador" knows that there are many business men who would ( like to get a share of that money by i trading with the soviet government and Martons hopes that sufficient influence in-fluence will bo brought to bear by7 the business men to bring about a more favorable attitude on tho part of the United States to the Bolshevlki. j : OO j