The sun., 1919-07-12

Governments wfll never enter upon
any negotiations for tho cession Of
q It's rights, and viii never cede the
II rights n possesses IN the Blue Zone
to any third Power except the Arab
State or the confederation Of Arab
Estates without The previous consent
DRILLS Majestys Government, which
ON. its part gives q similar assurance
tot,the French Government In regard
to tns Red Zone"
Throughout the secret diplomatic
corrsspondence relative to this secret
ARRANGEMENT Of partition both Am
bassspaor CANNON for the French Gov
ernment and Sir EDwAxD GxEY for the
Brfttsh Government referred to the
Items of partition a. French rights"
and british rights and French con-
csssfope" and British concessions"
as the case might I've. In one letter
Of N. CAxBoN to SIR EpwAnD GlEY
we observe tho significant phrase.
"those regions which shall become
French, or in which French interests
should become predominant"
For artistic finish we refer agatn
TO President WILSON'S Point or Prin-
ciple Number Twefys:
~Tns other nationalfsiss lsyria.
Ac.J whicA are now unesr Turkish
rule should b assured an undouossd
security Of life owd a. absolutely wH-
~soseseed eppowswstsy Of satessmoss
depesopmesG~
Is anything further needed to add
to American interest In the amazing
discrepancy between the noble prin-
ciples of self-determination and alb
solutely unmolested autonomous de-
velopment which President WILSON
invites American fathers and mothers
to guarantee and support, If occasion
comes, at the sacrifice of the lives Of
their sons and the highly practical
covenant Of partition and control
which secret diplomacy has registered
In the Angio-French treatyf
| II anything more is needed, THE
Sun thinks 1t may be found In the
mysterious phrases Of the subjofned
document, which has been very gen
orally II not altogether overlooked by
students Of the murky business on
this side Of the Atlantic:
Text Of declaration agreed to be-
tween the British and french Gov
ernmsnts and communicated to the
President Of The United States Of
America:
The aim which France and Great
Britain have In view in waging in
the East tho war Let loose upon the
world by German ambition 10 to in
sure me complete and final emanci-
patton Of all those peoples 80 long
oppressed BY the Turks. and to es-
tablish national governments and adj
rninistrations which shall derive their
authority from the initiative and free
win Of the peoples themselves.
ITO realize this France and Great
Britain are In agreement to sRcour-
ago and assist the establishment Of
native governments In Syria and
Mssopetamia. now liberated by the
Allies, as also In those territories for
whose liberation they are striving.
and to recognise those governments
Immediately they are effectively es-
tablishod.
/. Far from wishing to impose on
the peoples Of these regions this or
that institution. they have no other
care than to assure. by their support
, and practical aid. the normal work.
ings Of such governments and ad-
rninistrations as the peoples shall
a themselves have adopted to guaran-
tee impartial ana even Justice for
all. TO facilitate the economic devel-
, opment Of the country by arousing
and encouraging local initiative, to
foster the spread OF education. to put
an end to those factions too long ex-
plotted by Turkish policy--such is
the part which the two allied Gov
srnments have sst themselves to play
in the liberated territoriea"
). The foregoing joint declaration Il
: quoted from the columns Of the Pdles
Q tine Nesos of November, 1918, tn,
3 ofiicial Journal Of the Egyptian Ex
1 peditionary Force under General Al
q LENBY. 1t was simultaneously printet
in French or Arabic In the newspaper
Of Beirut. IL II, In fact, what 1t pur
a ports TO be, q diplomatic agreemen
{ of record at Paris and London?
Its appearance In Syria was lonl
a subsequent to the conclusion of the Sc
s cret treaty Of partition on lines of ma
y tional selfishness which we have beel