The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-20
MANDATES AND TROOP MOVEMENTS.

a country learns news concerning itself from others
and since Americans have found quite profitable dur
ing the w?r to go awy from home 20 get the news,
would not be wise to reject this report entirely
founded
Certainly if the opposition that has developed against
sending American soldiers abroad has any effect upon
the governments policies, it will hesitate before It COM
mits itself to any mandate which would require any
siderable fore of American troops to maintain order
There are senator's who think the government could
rot commit itself to a mandate without first obtaining
the consent of Congress- Other senator's equally firm
in their belief that the government not only take
mandate but has already agreed to do They point
to resolution offered by saunch supporter of the
administration providing for taking mandate over Ar
mena and the dspatchng of troops to maintain order
there This resolution, they suggest is merely clothing
with congressional sGnction policy already entered
upon, which might criticism if it should be
executed further before the ratification of the treaty
Up to the time of the conference between President
Wilson and the Senate committee there was no agree
ment between the United States and other governments
relating to the assignment of mandates The extremely
izedconfdent expressions from of the American
agents in Turkey and the Balkans seem to have been
unauthorized These agents not only took it for granted
that the United States would become mandatory over
Armenia but they advocated the extension of American
cvcrlordshp all Turkey Syria included There were
more or stirring references to the heart of the world
and to the necessity OF American financial and military
sacrifice for the sake of the peoples VINO were lately
cassed as allies of the Huns But exactly how the Turks
acquired a mortgage upon the sympathy and financial
assistance of the United States not made clear.
Nothing is more usual than an assumption of import
ance on the part of volunteer honorary representatives
of the United States foreign fields. The remote
from Washington the greater the assumption of import
ance and the more emphatic the statements purporting
to bind the United States When simmered down it is
usually found that these representatives are not clothed
with any power whatever. They enjoy the fitting glory
of personal homage which is rendered to them sup
posed representatives of this government In the exhila
ration of heartfelt exchanges of eternal friendship, es
pecaly near the end of convvia entertainment, they
find difficulty whatever in extending the protection
of the American flag to regions far remote The Treas
ury's inexhaustble to them to be not
only easily available but obligated to flow in torrent
of rriguous benefit the lean and starved lands
which cry for American protection No doubt if exact
list could be made of the amounts pledged toass by
volunteer American agents abroad would be found that
the United States still pker in the glorious work
of uplifting foreign peoples by the process of granting
credits in American dollars.
The demand for the return of the American soldiers
| If n he
1t angry and menacng that reaches the govern
ment. And yet the soldiers rghtfully in Siberia
and the only logical criticism against the Siberian stu
alton is that the number of soldier is insufficient to &C
cOmpsh the task in hand The handful of soldiers there
should be withdrawn unless the government is prepared
to strengthen them with force ten times as strong
with orders to fight instead of sitting astride the rail-
road.
AS for dspatchng 100000 soldiers or any other num-
ber to patrol the wastes of Armenia against the Kurds
Turks, Bashi?bazouks Kills Tartars and other assorted
mscreants with prospect of early withdrawal there
need be fear that the government will take such
step, The permission of Congress is an indispensable
prerequisite and in order to obtain the permission of
Congress- public opinion would have to make itself felt
Congress would not commit itself in such matter with
out the support of the people
Therefore, whether Paris has been advised of the
American policy not it would be we'll for the peace
conference to proceed the assumption that the United
States will not in the future become responsible
for maintaining the good order of any part of Europe
Asia or Africa Washington Post
Gen. Pershing spent his fftynnth birthday recently
in WASHINGTON. And NAV he have manu hannu reurns