The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-03-25
President Wilson Prepares New
Note to Supreme Council on
American Position.
MAY SEND MARINES OVER
House Committee Recommends
Dispatch of Armed Force to
Protect American Rights

Washington Mar. PA recon-
mendation that the United States sup
ply Armenia with sufficient arms and
ammunition to equip stable Armen-
ian army, was made today by the Sen
aSe Sub Committee which has con-
Quoted an exhaustive investigation into
conditions in the near east. The de-
spatch of American marines to protect
american interests along the railway
from Batoum to Baf-d is also recon-
mended.
The original position of the Amer
lean government that the Turks should
be expelled from Europe is re-stated
in a note to the allied supreme coun-
ell, which has been prepared at the
state department and which will be
transmitted soon. The note will bear
the signature of cambridge Colby the
new secretary of state and will be the
first diplomatic paper to be signed by
him.
The communication is in reply to an
inquiry from the French and British
governments as to this country's views
on the Turkish settlement. An earlyf
announcement at the department said
the note had been dispatched but it
developed that this was erroneous.
Officials were not certain when il
would go forward nor would they say
whether it would be sent through the
British and French embassies here or
through the American embassies at
London and Paris.
The position of the Americna gov
ernment is understood to be that there
is no sound reason for retaining the
Turkish capital in Europe. The United
States is said TO take the view that
the expulsion of the Turks might be
resented by the Mohammedans is not
supported by the facts since the war
in the Near East was won largely by
the aid of Mohammedans
The United States it is understood
desires that Armenia be set up as an
independent state and that it en-
brace as much territory as the Ar
~-1nenfan government can control 1t
also takes the position that any ar
rangemene that is made with regard
10 Turkey should guarantee to all ma
ttons equal opportunities for commerce
and that no beIligerent should be given
paramount claims in any part of the
East
The position Of the United States,
it lis said, also is that in any arrange
ment for the government of CONSTANT |
nople and the Turkish states a place
for the participation of Russia should |
be made as the Americna government |
is convinced that no plan of settle |
ment can be successful in the long
run which does not take into account |
the interests of Russia in the matter.
London, March 24-Disapproval of |
the supreme Councils decision to keep
the Sultan on the throne in Constan-
llnople IS voiced by many Englishmen |
who remember Gladstone's fierce de-
nunciation of abdul the Damned. {"
The Archbishop of York, speaking at
diocesan conference said:
To the deep disappointment of all |
that is triiest in Christendom, the un-
speakable Turk is apparently still to be
left in possession of ConstantipanIa
What the results may be is alrea51 51v
being sufficiently shown by the tid-
ings received of a renewed massac,.a
of Armenians. I think this is a matter
that ought to lie deep upon the CON
science of the British people we have
repeatedly and in the most solemn xva,,
gwen our assurance to these unhannv
people that the allies at least intended
TO deliver them from the tender
mercies Of their enemies we who
haMe made so much of the shame Of re-
garding solemn obligations as scrans
of paper, dare not ignore these solemn
and repeated assurances. and some
way must be found If the conscience
of Christendom is to be satisfied for
pM6 Getting those TO whom we have
gwen our solemn bond and promise ;,
II the United States government
definitely refuse to accept a mandat,
for the administration of Armenian
affairs, the British Labor Party has
indicated that 1t will insist as an al
tentative solution that the entire re-
gion known as Turkish Armenia be re-
leased from Turkish sovereignty.
The party takes an attitude of pro-
tecting against any idea of subordin
ating the Armenian settlement to con-
siderations OF Indian policy