RUSSIA: Autonomy Asked

According to a despatch from Poland, the Soviet Republics, embodied in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, demanded a conference to discuss their autonomy. This is not meant to end the Union, but is intended as a check on the autocracy of Moscow.

The proposal is to establish a second house, similar to the U. S. Senate, composed of the authorities of the existing republics. All laws affecting the Union would have to be passed by them as well as by the machinery of the present regime.

Russia is now governed by a Union...

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