The Raymer enterprise., 1920-12-02
League Of Nations Assembly Is
Trying to Find Some Way
to Save Armenia. f
AMERICA ASKED TO MEDIATE
Balfour Suspects Plan to Recognize
kemaI Pasha-PoIes and Boishe-
wiki Resume Negotiations
Affairs in Greeee-Murders
and ReprIsals In Dublin.
BY EDWARD W. PlckARo. ,


3 What shall be done to save Armenia?
That is the question that absorbed
auch Of the attention Of the League
4 Nations assembly last week. and 1t
Is not yet solved. nor, apparently, In
the way Of being solved. The Armeni-
an problem was forced on the atten-
tion of the assembly by the repeated
questions of members Of delegations
whose countries would not be involved.
and the representatives of the greater
powers were compelled to take 1t up.
The net result, so far, is the appoint
ment of commission which will ex-
anime the Armenian situation. Sir
Robert Cecil. South Africa. is Its chair
man, and the other members are Sem
ator Henri La F0ntaine, Belgium; Doc
tor Fridjof Nansen, Norway; HOnorio
Pueyrredon, Argentina; Slgnor Schan-
q, Italy. and Rene viviani, France.
. In the course Of the debate vivlani
proposed that the league council
should seek some government which
will mediate for Armenia with the
Turkish nationalists and try to OBJ
tain a cessation Of hostilities. The
council tliereupon cabled to President
Wilson asking the United States to
, act as mediator in the case, pointing
ont that although the senate had re-
jected the mandate for Armenia, a
new situation had arisen and new
solution was possible. The United
States Is not asked to send an expe-
dittonary force and only small out
layo of money will be necessary, since
we are asked merely IL represent Ar.
meniR,by entering negotiations toward
cnding'1warfare with Kemal Pasha.
Ii Is believed In Geneva that the Ma
tionalIst leader would welcome Amer
lea MS mediator because the fixing
of the bogpdaries of Armenia was
left to President Wilson.
NJ. viviah declared that the Unit
ed States wOnld be the most logical
power to represent Armenia in the
proposed negotiations, and that the
fact that It was mot a member of the
league would not Interfere. Some cor
respondents saw In all this talk an
cndeav0r to "lure'i the United States
into the league. Mr. Balfour saw more
than this In the Fredth plan. He be-
lieved II was the beginning of an ef-
fort to tear up the treaty Of sevres
with Turkey and to depriyf Greece of
the territory given her byathat pact;
also that It was designed first to rec
ognize Mustapha Kemal Pahha. He
demanded whether the Kemalists
would be offered money or territory as
brlbe to cease attacking the Arneni-
ans. and said Kemal was entirely in
different about the leagues opinion;
furthermore, he did not believe h
mandatory power for Armenia could
be found anywhere In the world. and
said the league could not send an ex-
peditlon into Asia Minor unless 1t was
under 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 tho
expeditionary force, which, according
to Doctor Nansen Of Norway, would
require 60OOO men and $l00,0OO,O 900.
High French officials in Paris said on
Wednesday that France would not
send a man or spend franc on an
Armenian mandate. but intImated that
she might ask Kemal Pasha what
changes in the treaty would make II
acceptable to him.
The league subcommission on new
members has decided not to admit
states carved out Of the former Rus
sian empire-Lithuania. iatvia, Es-
thonia and Ukraine: and undoubtedly
this means that Azerbaidjan. Georgia
! ard orher states In the Caucasus Will