Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-04
MANDATE OVER
/. TURKS BY SOME
!, POWER URGED IN
! HARBORD REPORT
Mission Does Not Recon-
mend That u, S, Accept
the Task, But Believes
Some Nation Should Do tt
$4,000 TROOPS WOULD
BE NEEDED FIRST YEAR
Cost Is Estimated at $780,
100000 for First y
Months and S756,000-
900 for First Five Years,
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tsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wlRe1
Washington, April 3.--While the
American mission under Major
General Harbord, which investigat-
! ed conditions in the near east last
Nyear did not recommend that the
nited States accept mandate
NVer the former Ottoman empire,
General Harboard, in his report
said some power should accept
mandate as the only solution of the
Turkish problem.
Constaninople, he said, should
be included in the mandatory ter
-Hitory, but he disapproved several
iandatories for different portions
of Turkey.
The much discussed report of the
mission was transmitted % the sem
|, lte today by President Wilson in re-
ksponse to a second resolution OF re-
luest adopted several weeks ago
after the senate had failed to near
from the White House concerning
its first resolution adopted In NO
vember.
While estimates of the number
of troops required for a mandate
vary from $4,000 to 100000, Gem
eral Harbord declared that in his
Judgment $4,000 would be needed
for the first year. The cost OF
the mandate was estimated at
S275,OOO, 900 for the first year, In
cluding $SS,500,000 for the army
and navy and at $756,O0O,OOO for
the first five years.
No mandate should be taken,
the commission said, without for
NAL agreement with France ana
Great Britain and also definite ap-
proyal," of Germany and Russia.
The inhabitants, the mission stated,
desire America to take the mandate
first. with Great Britain their sec
ond choice
- The principal arguments adj
Aanced in favor of the United states
Fccepting a mandates were that the
Snfiuence of the United States
would tend to avert wars, that the
inhabitants wanted American pro-
lection and that this would give
the United states an opportunity
TO do a great humanitarian work.
Reasons advanced against
mandate were that it would weak
en- our position relative to the Mon
roe doctrine" that humanitarian
ism begins at home" and that the
first years cost would be $275,-
100000, including $SS,5OO,oVo tor
the army and navy
"Retter millions for mandate
than billions for a war, SAID the
recommendation favoring man
date.
y "If America accepts a mandate
for the region visited by this ms
sion," said General Harbord, II
will undoubtedly do so from
strong sense of international duty
and at the unanimous desire, so
expressed at least. of its colleagues
in the league of nations.
Accepting this difficult task
without previously securing the as
surance of conditions would be Ia
tai to success. The United States
should make its own condluohs
certainly before and not after ac-
ceptance, for there are mulltuae
of interests that will conflict with
what any American would consider
a proper administration of turkey.
aIn our opinion there should be
specific pledges in the terms of for
NAL agreements with France and
England and definite approval
from Germany and Russia to the
disposition made of Turkey ana
Trans Caucasia and pledge TO re-
: spect them"
In administration and sanitation.
tho report said, America could aid
J the peoples residing in the terri
{ tory and against the expense 1t
! would have the amount now given
| charitably for near eastern aid.
without recommending whether
the United States should or should
not accept Turkish mandatory
General Harbord's conclusions were
that mandatory by some power
was the only solution of the prop
lem. The mandatory territory, he
stated, should include Constantine
pie,