Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

ration of relief and will engage in no political or commercial activity whatever. In view of paragraph (1) and the freedom of American per- sonnel in Russia from personal search, arrest and detention, any personnel contravening this will be withdrawn or dis- charged on the request of the Central Soviet Authorities. The Central Soviet Authorities will submit to the chief officer of the A.R.A. the reasons for this request and the evidence in their possession. 446 FEEDING THE HUNGRY Twenty-sixth:; That it will carry on its operations where it finds its relief can be administered most efficiently and to secure best results. Its principal object is to bring relief to the famine stricken areas of the Volga. Twenty-seventh: That it will import no alcohol in its relief supplies and will permit customs inspection of its 1m- ported relief supplies at points to be mutually agreed upon. The Soviet Authorities having previously agreed as the absolute sine qua non of any assistance on the part of the American people to release all Americans de- tained in Russia and to facilitate the departure from Russia of all Americans so desiring, the A.R.A. re- serves to itself the right to suspend temporarily or terminate all of its relief work in Russia in case of failure on the part of the Soviet Authorities to fully compiy with this primary condition or with any con- dition set forth in the above agreement. The Soviet Authorities equally reserve the right of cancelling this agreement in case of non-fulfillment of any of the above clauses on the part of the A.R.A. Made in Riga, August Twentieth, Nineteen hundred and Twenty-one. On behalf of Council of Peoples Commissaries of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. (Signed) Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Peoples Commissary for Foreign Affairs. (Signed) Walter Lyman Brown On behalf of the American Relief Administration Director for Europe. DOCUMENT II (MOSCOW AGREEMENT) AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE AMERICAN MEN- NONITE RELIEF AND THE RUSSIAN SO- CIALIST FEDERATIVE SOVIET REPUBLIC WHEREAS a condition of famine prevails in parts of Russia; and WHEREAS appeals have been made to the world for aid in humanitarian cause; and APPENDIX 447 WHEREAS the American people are moved with pro- found sympathy to assist by all possible means these com- munities threatened with starvation; and WHEREAS the American Mennonites desire to partici- pate directly in this humanitarian service of relief for the needy in a spirit of love, peace, and goodwill, regardless of race, religion, or social status; and WHEREAS the American Mennonites feel it a special duty to give impartial aid also in the regions where their co-religionists are suffering from the effects of the famine; THEREFORE it is agreed between the American Men- nonite Relief, an unofficial, volunteer, American organiza- tion for social service, hereinafter called the A.M.R., and the Russian Socialist F