Cannot Agree With Russia.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 15, 1912:
Admistration OfficiaLs Say New Treaty Will Be Problem for Wilson.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.— State Department officials think the question of a new treaty between the United States and Russia will be one of the problems that President Wilson will have to face. While negotiations have been in progress in St. Petersburg, practically no headway has been made, and it is thought here that it will be impossible to formulate a new treaty before the old one passes out of existence at the end of the year.
    With no treaty in existence between Russia and the United States each Government would be free to do what it pleased in the maintenance of relations with the other.
    What will probably be done, however, to prevent any break will be to arrange a modus vivendi that will virtually keep in effect temporarily the provisions of the existing treaty relating to trade and commerce, leaving it to the new Administration to negotiate a new treaty, provided Russia will agree to the one proposition that passports to all American citizens, without regard to race or creed, shall be recognized by Russia.