RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
AMERICAN ATTITUDE DEFINED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, July 23. Mr C. E. Hughes (Secretary of State), in replying to a letter horn Mr Samuel Gompors (president of the American Federation of Labor) asking for an explanation of tho American attitude towards Russia, reasserted that, tho Administration the United States would l not grant recognition to tho Russian Government at the present time. The United • States,_ contrary to European custom, did not withhold recognition from a Government arising from a revolution, but it must bo assured that such a Government had popularsuppori. In conclusion, Mr Hughes said: “The United States cannot consider the recognition of tho Soviet until it receives convincing evidence that tho Soviet will observel tho fundamental conditions of international intercourse, and abandon its jicrsistent attempts to subvert the institutions of democrocv as they are maintained in the United Stales and other countries.”—. A. and N.Z. Cable,
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Evening Star, Issue 18335, 24 July 1923, Page 7
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