The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-02


 any military burden, because follow | ing the completion of the occupation | of the country and the disarmament l of the armed bands and individuals, 1 the Armenians can. easily create a | force of 75,OOO men for home de-
 fense.
 1 The Delegation of Integral Armenia | has already informed the Peace Con- l ference that the Armenians have in | Caucasus Armenia at least 75,000 i men who have seen service in the
 Russian Army, and who would form i the nucleus of the proposed Ar 1 menian force, provided we supply l them with necessary equipment. The
 Armenian Republic in the Caucasus | which has been now functioning for | over a year, has a force of over 3O,- l 900 men.
 The opinion advanced by certain | Americans who, for reasons of their l own, would like to see America take l a joint mandate for Armenia and i Anatolia, on the grounds that the | Armenians are scattered and that l they constitute the minority in Tur- l kish Armenia, has no practical merit In 1914 the Armenians in Turkish
 Armenia numbered 1,4O3,0OO, the 1 Turks 943, 900 and the Kurds 4S2, ,00O. 1 That is, the Armenians constituted | the plurality of the population. Pos 1 sibly one-ha1f of the Armenian pop | lllation of Turkish Armenia has been destroyed by the Turks.
 According to Turkish testimony, | more than one-haIf of the MosIem population of Turkish Armenia has likewise perished from privation, pes ti1ence, etc. The Armenians in pro posed Armenia will constitute over sixty-fiVe per cent. of the population because the proposed Armenia shall include Caucasus Armenia, where these is an Armenian population of about a million and a half, and also over one million Armenians who live in other parts Of Turkey and the con- uguOus regions of Russian Armenia and elsewhere. Also with the esta b. lishment of an indepenGent Armenia, the majority of the Turks would be likely to move into Turkey, as they have done when Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece were severed from Turkey When we remember the fact that in 1914, the Turks constituted only twenty-five per cent. of the popuIa- ton of Turkey, then we will see that the Armenians are in an infinitely better position in point of numbers than the Turks have ever been. 15.-We may have to land on the Black Sea and Mediterranean shores of Armenia a few thousand marines as a notice on the population that America has assumed the task of | organizing the Armenian Govern 1 ment, which will have an incredibly great steadying effect upon the popu- lation. Our principal task will con- l sist in aiding the Armenians material | ly, which shall be done by way of 1 loans. Armenia can be made a self-sup- porting nation within five years. In proportion to it's size-and it is the 1 most extensive among all the newly i created States, except Arabia, which i is largely a desert country-Ar- l 1nenia is the richest country in the
 world in natural resources. It has a | healthful and vigorous climate and 1 excellent soil for all agricultural pur- 1 poses.
 16.-We are the only disinterested 1 nation that the Powers and Armenia
 implicitly trust, and one that can | make the independence of Armenia
 a reality.
 | Armenia is the great highway that | links Europe with Asia and has a l commanding position on the Black | Sea and the Mediterranean. Without l et SldDIe government III AIA1Gnla, l there can be no peace in the Near
 East and once the Near East is in
 turmoil, it will inevitably involve us in 1 international difficulties.
 17.-Germany started the war of | world conquest with the immediate purpose of securing the domination | of Turkey, and particularly the Ar l menian part of 1t, since it is the most 1 desirable portion of the former | Turkish Empire.
 Armenians are the only people | capable of se1f-government and of | representing us in that land Without
 them Germany will naturally be tempted to make a new bargain with | the Turks for another adventure in l the east.
 | 1S.-The principal reason that in duced the Turks to attempt to get rid of the Armenians was that they were
 a barrier between the Turks of Ana tolia and the twenty-four or more
 million Turanians beyond Armenia. It was the plan of the Turks that once they were able to effect a junc-
 ton with their kinsmen of the Cau-
 casus and trans-Caspian, they would set out on a campaign of militant | pan-Islamism, with the ambition of
 dominating the destiny of the world
 
 Turks of Anatolia and does away with
 any pan-Turanian peril in the future 19.-If we take the Armenian
 mandate, Armenia will become the
 outpost of American civilization in
 the east Our missionaries and our
 educators in the Near East can carry
 on their work of civilization through Armenia, and our business interests
 can establish their branches there and
 thus stimulate American commerce
 in the Near East. Within a radius of
 500 miles of the boundaries of Ar . menia, there are to be found over O0,00O,00O people who should be re- captive to American ideas and , methods
 , 20.-If we were to decline to take
 the Armenian mandate, another na- | ton will; then the American mis-