Arizona republican., 1920-05-25

as any stipulations he may prescribe i as to access to the sea for the inde- pendent stae of Armenia, pending that decision the boundaries of Turkey and Armenia to remain as at present. l have thought it my duty to accept this difficult and delicate task.
 Tn response to the invitation of the council at San Reno, I urgently ad- vice and request that the congress grant the executive power to accept for the United States a mandate over Armenia I make this suggestion in the earnest belief that it will be the wish of the people of the United States that this should be done. The sympathy with Armenia has pro ceeded from no single portion of our people, but has come with eXtraordl- nary sDontaneity and sincerity from the whole of the great body of Chris tian men and women in this country by whose free will offerings Armenia has practically been saved at the most critical iuncture of it's existence. This great and generous people have made the cause of Armenia their oRn- It is to this people and to their government that the hope and earnest expectations of the struggling people of Armenia turn as they emerge from period of findescribable suffrage and peril and l hope that the congress will think it wise to meet the hope and eXpecta- ] tigT with the utmost liberality I | ARnew from unmistakable evidence given by responsible representatives ! of many peoples struggling towards 1 independence and peaceful life again ! that the government of the United l States is looked to with extraordinary i trust and confidence and I believe it i would do nothing less than arrest the l hopeful processes of civilization if we were to refuse the request to become l the helpful friends and advisers of such of these peoples as we may be l authoritatively and formally requested 1 to guide and assist.
 Says Move Urged by Christians
 ''I am conscious that I am urging upon the congress a very critical 1 choice, but l make the suggestion in the confidence that I am speaking in the spirit and in accordance with the wishes of the greatest of the Christian peoples. The sympathy for Armenia among our people has sprung from un- tainted consciences. pure Christian faith and an earnest desire to sec Christian people succored in their time of suffering and lifted from their ab-
 ject subjection and distress and en- abled to stand upon their feet and take their place among the free nations oi
 the world. Our recognition of tht
 independence of Armenia will meaI
 genuine liberty and assured happines: for her people if we fearlessly under
 take the duties of guidance and as
 sistance involved in the functions of 2
 mandatory. It is. therefore, with tn,
 most earnest hopefulness and with tho
 feeling that I am giving advice from | which the congress will not willingly turn away that I urge the acceptance
 of the invitation now formally an,
 solemly extended us by the council a
 San Remo into whose hands ha
 passed the task of composing the man.
 complexities and difficulties of gov
 ernmet in the one time Ottoman em
 pire and the maintenance of order ant
 tolerable conditions of life in thos
 portions of that empire which it is m T longer possible in the interest of civili 'zation to leave under the governmen