Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-05-06
NEWS review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Turk Problem Settled So That
All the Allies Are Fairly
Well Satisfied.
ARMENIA LEFT FOR AMERICA
Germans Warned to Carry Out Pledge
and Summoned to Conference
= Psaes Resolution Framed for
ssnats-Troops Ready to
Guard Mexican Border.
sy EDWARD W. PIckARp.

~ EDWARD w. PlckARD.
! Il was easy to predict that the allied
prsmfers would reach an amicable set
tlenent OF their differences concern
Ing Turkey and the pressure to. be nut
on Germany. That was what they
did. and each Of the allied nations
most interested seems fairly we'll sat
1sf1ed with the results. AS for the
United States, It Is offered the man
date for Armenia. II It declines to ac-
cspt this great and expensive response
bility. President Wilson is requested
to determine the boundaries Of the
Armenian state, and its protection is
to be arranged later. Fixing the linz
its Of Armenia will be no small Job,
and II Mr.. Wilson undertakes 1t he
may hnd his generous tendencies
curbed BY the strength of the Turkish
nationaiists. For instance, their lead
er, Mustapha Kemal, Is in possession
'of Erzerum. which Mr.. Wilson has
considered the capital Of Armenia, and
mo one seems inclined to try to dis
possess him. The nationalists it is
said. will have representatives in Paris
when the treaty is delivered to the
Turkish delegates.
|; Supposing that the British have not
materially modified their lmperialistic
desires. they appear to have profited
hugely by the Turkish settlement
T:,ey are given possession or control
Of Mesopotamia. Palestine. the Cau-
casus with the ports Of Baku and Ba-
tum, the Bagdad railway, and naval
control of the Dardanelles. Also Tur-
key Is compelled to recognize the Brit
ish protectorate over Egypt, which in
sures sole rights to the Suez canal.
However. there has grown up in Eng
land strong feeling against further
expansion of the empire and recog-
milton Of the fact that some Of it's
most important boundaries are weak
ened and thrown open by the acquisi-
tory 10 that part of the world. 1t is
felt that the material benefits to be
derived will not nearly compensate for
the added burden on the British tax
payer. for certainly a strong military
I establishment will have to be main
tained permanently in those regions.
France, Italy and Greece were
granted most Of their demands in the
Turkish settlement, and even Turkey
itself was considered, for 1t retains
Cilicia and has chance to keep Erze-
rum.
When the supreme council came to
the settlement Of the dispute over the
enforcement of the German treaty Pre-
mier Millerand scored a decided vic
tory. Backed to degree by Lloyd
George, he was able to convince Pre-
mier Nitt that It was necessary. to
warn Germany that the allies were
ready to take all measures, even to the
military occupation Of more German
/ territory, to assure the carrying out
|. Of the treaty of Versailles. A stiff
note was sent to Berlin saying the al
lies cannot even consider the German
request for an army Of 10000 as long
sas Germany fails to meet the most i'm
T portant obligations imposed by the
( treaty, and adding the warning Of
T fOrcible action. The council said, how
ever, that 1t "does not seek to impose
too narrow an Interpretation of the
treaty" and Instructed Berlin to send
the chiefs Of the government to Spa
on May % for an exchange Of views.
n the Germans then can make satis-
factory explanations and propositions,
the council will be willing to discuss
questions that affect the Internal or
der and economic well-being Of Ger
many. Premier Nillerand on, Wednes-
~ assured the Trench chamber Of