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President Wilson = Recommendation that
the United States accept the Armenian
Mandate should surprise no one iamiihr
with the course pursued by him at the
| Paris Conference At that time both the
| President and Colonel House again and
| again expressed the belief that the United
| states would take mandates, both Tor
/ Constantinopie and for Armenia anu
/ there was discussion Of the possiDiity
that America might take owe. the "
sponsibility for all Of the Turkish efnpIsi
outside of the Arabian districts, which hao
been divided in advance by Britain ana
| France. a.
The long delays in the solution Of the
Near Eastern problems which nave per
sisted for more than year, are 70 ps
traced directly 10 the general expectahpi,,
IN Ftlrope that the United states wouln
IN some measure become partner IN the
enterprise Of recognizing the Near Easy;
postponement after postponement o. az
! decision has marked the continuing b0p.
ON the other side Of the Atlantic that the
/ President might presently surInount i'''
domestic difficulties and find himself 10
+ position to carry out his program az oNv
lined in Paris year ago.
ITnhappiIv, while decisions have Deei
pogtuoned, conditions in Asia Minor h@Vl
! marched from bad % worse. II Britlsi
: tr0ops have occupied COnstantinopie
: Greek troops Smyrna and French sonl
!, norton Of the Syrian littoral, TURKS
: leaders in the hinterland of Anatoba nav
: broken away from Constantinople authoi
! itv and Allied control and have proceede
: to organize armies and prepare TO resif
= any Christian Intervention, whether.
y Armenia or IN Anatolia. In point 81 iaaC
:, the French in Cilicia are already retreetin
! before Turkish attack, while the Gree
: forces about Smyrna are az least threatei
!. ed with serious offensiveB.
= Az for Armenia, itself, i exists large
= in official documents, for Erzerlm and y
= highlands about Van and Bitls a
= actually in Turkish hands, while as u
= Turkish rebels push eastward, the hu
- sian RevoltionIsts continue 70 advan
y ao,ithweztward and between the "
y. Is niJIstones Armenia is being ground u
N In noint az fact in all the vast regl'
- bounded chiefly by the Caspian, Blac
~ Mediterranean and Hgean seas, togeth
y yvith the Arabian Desert, there y m
- only turmoil massacre, anarchy
In permitting President Wilson p dr'
- the boundaries Of the new Armenia, 7
- - European nations have done no INC
IA than 10 leave to America the privilege
"a / deciding now larSe is7
$ willing 10 accent Thus the President 10
~ decide that Armenia shall consist rner'
20 the area described az Armenia Maj
roughly speaking including the feassl
"a Armenian regions and the nrEi7h
q tricts Of Ezerum, Van and bitlls, WITH
Ter without the Trebiaend coast, or re- n
oF decide that Il shall include both I
err Armenia Major, which nave indlca'
fit above and Armenia Minor "a wen u
ID. latter be included, then the state VIII
= ta,d southwestvyard To the Mediterrans
ith at the Gulf Of Alexsndretta, lnclId
oly that Cilicia, where Franco Turkish ng
ars ing IS now in progress.
The But the latter state would IN reality
Of cl,de vast regions in which the Armen
.er- population, mainly because Of systern'
me rnassacres. il now in great MINOR
! a Moreover the task Of policing, Of org
as izing. Of administering the larger a