THE NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
such a treaty as would be negotiated with any other sovereign state. 
While it is not as satisfactory a treaty as might have been secured 
under other conditions, it is wholly consistent with American prin- 
ciples of the “open-door” and the territorial and political integrity 
of sovereign states. This Chamber therefore urges the prompt 
ratification of this treaty. (Resolution, Twelfth Annual Meeting, 
1924.) 
RerATIiONS WitH CANADA 
Your committee respectfully suggests that the Chamber, through 
its proper channels, conduct an inquiry as to the possibility of 
further improving the social and economic relations between the 
business men of Canada and the United States, to the end that each 
may enjoy the utmost advantage to be gained by the best possible 
social and business contact between the citizens of the two countries. 
(Resolution, Thirteenth Annual Meeting, 1925.) 
Russia 
We endorse the position of our government in refusing to recog- 
nize Soviet Russia and pledge the continuing support of organized 
business in that refusal, until Soviet Russia provides adequate assur- 
ances of its purpose to maintain its international relations in accord- 
ance with recognized standards, with evidence of its intent to redress 
past wrongs. 
It is outside the fundamental moral question to argue that Rus- 
sia possesses great natural resources with a vast potentiality of trade 
and industry, or that world capital and world ability ventured in 
Russia could raise the living standards and the welfare of one hun- 
dred and fifty million Russians from their present subnormal level. 
Such aids can be rendered only on a basis of mutual confidence. 
Our government cannot, by recognition, encourage our people to 
venture persons and property in Russian development while previous 
seizures of American property still stand without restitution or 
compensation, nor can it enter into relations demanding mutual 
respect and confidence so long as there are grounds for suspicion 
of Soviet propaganda encouraging sedition and disloyalty. (Reso- 
lution, Fourteenth Annual Meeting, 1926.) 
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