SOVIET MUST REFORM.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4592, 18 May 1922, Page 4

SOVIET MUST REFORM.

BEFORE U.S.A. WILL RECOGNISE IT. (By Electric Cable—Copyright.) • Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) New York, May 16. The newspapers generally applaud Senator Hughes’s Note and endorse the Government’s stand that it will not consider the recognition of Russia or enter into negotiations regarding the Soviet until the Bolsheviks institute fundamental reforms. General support is given to the policy expressed further by Senator Hughes, that the United States is willing to put its views to the test by joining the Allied Commission to investigate what is wrong with Russia and what are the remedies. The New York Times says: “Europe will now realise the correctness of the American theory that the basis for the economic reconstruction of Russia and . resumption of international relations, lies only in Soviet guarantees.