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Show RUSSIA WANTS OkLillTS FIRST 1 Funds of Other Nations j Her Chief Object at Hague Meeting International cwh Service MOSCOW, June 17. An attack up-on up-on the American policy toward soviet ' Russia was made here today by II, ' Lltvlnoff, acting commissar for for-lelgn for-lelgn affairs, In an exhaustive lnter-' lnter-' view with International News Service I III which hj revealed that the chief I ol'ject of the Russians at The Haue will be to secure outsids credits. .M Lltvinoff. who will head the Russian Rus-sian committee of exjiorts at The ; Hague, said that soviet Russia Is glad Jthat the United States will not be an active participant In the Internation-1 I al conferences "because the American ! attitude would hinder the progress" STRFAGI1T CLAIMED Tho soviet official was hostile towards to-wards France, but spoke In praise of I Premier Lloyd George of Tngland. I "America's attitude towards France Is by no means a blameless one," said the soviet official. "It Is not good for America herself, j for Russia, or for the world. Some day America will see her mistake and ireverse her policy But the longer she waits the greater will be her mls-) mls-) take "Soviet Russia enters the conference j at The Hague stronger than she was at Genoa, because Russia is gaining in strength monthly Our harvest prospects are steadily getting better I for one thing. i "Genoa brought the powers closer ' together, but the main purpose of the (conference failed because of France. I The assembly at The Hague Is em-j em-j powered to discuss credits, which Is our first necessity. Russia wants credit cred-it direct. The Russians are able to j offer satisfactory security, but we fear that Europe will hardly bo able to grant as much as we need In one sum, although it might be spread over a long term of years. "IAVen )r Rusals falls to secure cred-I cred-I Its she can go on. but at a slower rate 'of speed than would otherwise be pos-Islble pos-Islble If we had tunas. And that would j I be Dad for tne rest of the world. ' |