AMERICAN PROBLEMS by WILLIAM E.BORAH 1924

RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA 257
evitably follow. For five years the soviet government
has been meeting every test which
can be applied to a government from without
and from within. At the present time it seems
to be conceded upon all hands that it is much
stronger than it has been at any time during
those five years. Notwithstanding that fact,
the prophecy is still put forth—for the consolation
of those, I suppose, who put it forth
that within a short time the soviet government
is to fail, and to recognize it is to aid in its
maintenance a little longer.
Further on Mr. Fox said:
Look back to the proclamations with which they set out.
Read the declarations which they made themselves to
justify their appeal to arms. They did not pretend to fear
their ambition, their conquests, their troubling their neighbors;
but they accused them of new modeling their own
Government. They said nothing of their aggressions
abroad; they spoke only of their clubs and societies at
Paris.
Sir, in all this, I am not justifying the French—I am not*
striving to absolve them from blame, either in their internal
or external policy.
Again he said:
I therefore contend, that as we never scrupled to treat
with the princes of the house of Bourbon on account of
their rapacity, their thirst of conquest, their violation of
treaties, their perfidy, and their restless spirit, so we ought
not to refuse to treat with their republican imitators.