Middletown transcript., 1920-12-04
News REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
League of Nations Assembly Is
Trying TO Find Some Way
to Save Armenia.
AMERICA ASKED TO MEDIATE
eaIfour Suspects Plan to Recognize
kemai Pasha-Poles and Bolshe-
Wiki Resume Negotiations
Affairs in Greec>-Murders
and Reprisais in Dublin.
Bv EDWARD W. PIcKARD.

BY EDWARD W. PIcKARD.
What shall be done to save Armenia?
That is the question that absorbed
much of the attention of the League
Of Nations assembly last week, and it
Is not yet solved, nor, apparently, in
the way Of being solved. The Armeni-
an problem was forced on the atten-
ton Of the assembly by the repeated
questions Of members Of delegations
whose countries would not be involved,
and the representatives of the greater
powers we're compelled to take it 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 it's chair
man, and the other members are: Sem
ator Henri La Fontaine, Belgium; Doc
tor Fridjof Nansen, Norway; Honorio
Pueyrredon, Argentina; Signor Schan-
ri, Italy, and Rene Viviani, France.
In the course Of the debate Viviani
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 thereupon cabled to President
Wilson asking the United States to
act as mediator in the case, pointing
out that although the senate had re-
jected the mandate for Armenia,
new situation had arisen and new
solution was possible. The United
States is not asked to send an expe-
dictionary force and only small out
lay of money win be necessary, since
we are asked merely t. represent Ar
menia by entering negotiations toward
ending warfare with Kemal Pasha.
It is believed in Geneva that the Ma
tionalist leader would welcome Amer
lea as mediator because the fixing
Of the boundaries Of Armenia was
left to President Wilson.
Nj. Viviani declared that the Unit
ed States would be the most logical
power to represent Armenia In the
proposed negotiations, and that the
fact that it was not a member of the
league would not interfere. Some cor
respondents saw in all this talk an
endeavor to lure" the United States
into the league. Mr.. Balfour saw more
than this in the French plan. He be-
lieved it was the beginning of an 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 it was designed first to rec
ognize Mustapha Kemal Pasha. He
demanded whether the Kemalists
would be offered money or territory as
a 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-
pedition into Asia Minor unless it 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 the
force, which, according
to Doctor Nansen of Norway, would
require $4,000 men and 100000, 600.
High French officials in Paris said on
Wednesday that France would MOT
send a man or spend a franc on an
mandate, but intimated that
she might ask Kemal Pasha what
changes in the treaty would make it
acceptable to him.
The league subcommission. on new
members has decided not to admit
states carved out of the former Rus
sian empire Latvia, Es-
thonia and Ukraine; and undoubtedly |
this means that Azerbaidjan, Georgia |
and other states in the Caucasus will !