RUSSIANS DEMAND 20 YEAR MORATORIUM ON THEIR DEBTS
Berlin, Germany (JFK+50) A front-page story in the New York Tribune, dateline March 28, 1922, reports "the Russian Bolsheviki*at Genoa will demand a twenty-year moratorium on all debts owed by Russia to other countries."
If this condition is met, the Russians will agree to "recognize these foreign obligations" providing the debts are reduced by the amount of damage sustained by their country.
The story concludes...
"The Moscow regime will offer to recognize the League of Nations if...the league will recognize Moscow outright..."
*Bolshevik, a far left revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin.
SOURCE
"Soviet to Insist On Moratorium For 20 Years," The New York Tribune, March 29, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
