ABSTRACT
The outstanding question at issue between the United States and Russia is that of recognition. Russia has been recognized by most of the other great powers. Certain acts of the United States have implied recognition. According to the American policy on recognition for 120 years since 1793, Russia would have been recognized. In Russia itself that is the principal significance which would be attached to American recognition. Later, in 1920, important concessions were offered for petroleum, coal, and timber, of a value of several billion dollars, to an American group, provided the United States recognized Russia. Innumerable resolutions have been introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the past few years, advocating the recognition of Russia. Recognition of Russia would be conditioned upon payment of the old debts and restoration of confiscated American private property. The twenty-four governments that recognize Soviet Russia do not necessarily approve of communist principles nor the policies of the Soviet Government.
