Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-12-02
REV'IIEgIl OF
Current EVENTS
League Of Nations Assembly Is
Trying to Find Some Way
to Save Armenia.
America t'.s@I.El 70 lsEE:gliia7s:
Balfour Suspects Plan to Recognize
kema, pashs-~FoIes and Bolshe-
wiki Resume Meaotiatjons-
Affairs in Greece Murders
and Reprisals in Dublin.
BY EpNle .Rp W. PlcMARp.


What shall le done save Armenia?
That is the question tat absorbed
much of the alicntion Of tie League
of Nations assembly last week, and it
is not yet solved. nor, apparently. in
the way OF being solved. Tho .Nrineni-
an problem was orced on the atten-
tion OF the assem- bg Tie repeated
questions of members of delegations
whose countries would not be involved,
and the Representatives of the greater
powers were compelled to tilse il up.
The net result, so far, is tha sppoint-
ment of a commission which Will eN-
anime the Armenian situa;i0u SIR
Robert Cecil, South Africa, is It's chair
man. and the other members ero Sem
ator Henri La Fontainc, Belgium Doc
tor lsridiof Nansep, Norway; iIonorlo
Pueyrredon, Argentina; Sienor Schan-
ri, Italy, and Rene viviani. 6,nec.
In the course OF the debte T4yiani
proposed that the leagu. council
should seek some eovernni@it which
will mediate for Armenia wih tie
Turkish nationalists and tex 10 oB-
tain a cessation of hostiitiGs The
council thereupon cabled 10 President
Wilson asking tie United STAGES 10
act as mediator in the cas- rpinting
out that although the senate had re-
jected the mandate for Armenia,
new situation had arisen and new
solution was possible Tie United
States is not asked TO send an eXpe-
dictionary force and only smill out
lay of money will be necessar since
we are asked mseely % rep ent Ar
menia by enterne negotiations toward
ending warfal'e Nth lIrlal l9asha
1t IS believed III Geneva llai che Na-
tionaist leader would welcodlc Amer
ica rs mediator because the hXing
of '.e boundaries of AIaaeHq was
left to President Wilson.
NJ yiviani declared that l. Unit
ed States would be the most Logical
power TO represent Armeu@ In The
proposed negotiations, and that The
fact that ii was not a menhel. of the
league would net interfere Some cor
respondents saw in all this talk an
endeavor TO lure" the United states
into the league. MIR. Balfour saw more
than this in The French plan. 1ie be-
lieyed it WAS the beginning OF IN ef-
fort to tear up the treaty of Sevres
with Turkey and to deprive Greece Of
the territory given her by that pact;
also that 1t was designed first To rec
ognjZc Mustapha Kemal Pasta. He
1,rhn lse.tt
would be offered money or territory as
bribe TO cease attacking the Armeni-
ans. and said Kemal was entirely IN
different about the leagues opinion;
furthermore. he did not believe
mandatory power for Armenia could
be found anywhere in the world, and
said the league could not send an ex-
petition into Asia Minor unless it was
unde: the control of some treaty sign
ing power.
Various delegates asserted their be-
lief that the United States would now
accept the mandate and furnish the
expeditionary force which according
to Doctor Nansen of Norway. would
require 10000 men and 100000 0O0
High French officials in Paris said on
Wednesday that France would net
send man or spend frame on an
Armenian mandate, but intimated that
she might ask Kemal Pasha what
changes in the treaty would make it
acceptable to him.
The league subcommission Oh new
members has decided not to admit
states carved out of the former Rus
sian empire -Lithuania, Latvia. Es-
thonia and Ukraine; and undoubtedly
this means that Azerbaidjan. Georgia
and other states in the Caucasus will