Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign Relations is hereby
authorized Is/ directed, through the full committee or through any subcommittee
thereof -? investigate as speedily as possible the status of said Martens; what
aliped government or power in Europe he represents; what, if any, recognition
of any kind has been accorded him by this Government; whether or not li ns an
alien enemy ; what propaganda, if any, he is carrying on for the overthrow of
governments; and all facts and circumstances relating to his activities in this
country and his alleged diplomatic representation, and all facts relative to
the activities of any other party, parties, or organization bearing upon or
relating to Russian propaganda in this country, and make report to the Senate of
such findings.
The said committee is hereby empowered to sit and act at
such time and place as it may deem necessary; to require, by subpoena or
otherwise, the attendance of witnesses, the production of books, papers, and
documents; to employ stenographers at a cost not exceeding $T per printed page.
The chairman of the committee, or unyjmember thereof, may administer oaths to
witnesses. Subpoenas for witnesses shall be issued under the signature of the
chairman of the committee or subcommittee thereof. Every person who, having
been summoned as a witness by authority of said committee or any subcommittee
thereof, willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer
any question pertinent to the investigation heretofore authorized, shall be
held to the penalties provided by section 102 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
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In sum the committee finds in obedience to the instructions
of the resolution of the Senate that—
(1) Martens has no status whatever in this country in any
diplomatic or other governmental representative quality.
(2) Martens assumes to represent the Russian Federated
Soviet Republic—a regime established in Russia by revolution and functioning
under a constitution which has been above summarized; a regime which has never
been recognized by the Government of the United States and which in
international law has no standing as a constituted authority.
(3) Martens has received no recognition officially or even provisionally
by the Government of the United States.
(4) Martens, by the accepted practice of this Government or
its treaty or other international obligations and usages, is a ( man subject,
and in consequence an alien enemy.
(5) Martens’s propaganda in this country for the overthrow
governments is established by his own testimony, as shown in body of the
report, that he has publicly associated and sympathy with those advocating such
a course. He admitted to the committing his persistent revolutionary character,
his desire to see the establishment of the “ dictatorship of the proletariat ”
in all lands, his opinion that it would be better for this country if the soviet
government were established here. It was also proved that he tinned to employ
in the staff of his embassy persons who have publicly and in his presence advocated the
bringing of bolshevism America and he admitted to the committee that “ any
means w would produce this condition would be justified.”
Namely the individual Martens was placed in legal limbo utimately leading no where. So what is old is new again. It is worth reading this entire file if one is interested. This has been going on from the beginning.
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