Whenever the League of Nations holds an important international conference, the U. S. and Soviet Russia are invited to send "observers," and, while the U. S. usually accepts, the Soviet Government has steadfastly refused, these past four years.
The reason is that during the Lausanne Conference of 1923 (at Lausanne, Switzerland) the Russian representative, M. Vaslav Vorovsky, was assassinated. His alleged assassin was acquitted by a Swiss Court. For four years the Swiss Government has refused the kind of apology demanded by the Soviet Government. Ergo, no Soviet "observers" have come to...
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