The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-05
Harbord Says Some COun-
try Must Take 1t to
Solve Turkish Problem
PRESENTS BOTH
SIDES OF QUESTION
Would Cost This Country Half a Bill
lion and Endanger Monroe Doctrine
Great Trade Developments Might
Follow-Would Save Armenians.

WASHINGTON, April 5.-While the
American mission under Major General
Hartford, which investigated conditions in
the Near East last year, did not recon-
mend that the United States accent a
mandate over the Turkish Empire. Gen. |
Hartford in his report said some power
should accept a mandate as the only So |
luton of the Turkish problem.
Constantinople, he said, should be in
Guided in the mandatory territory, but
ne dissaproved several manufactures for
different portions of Turkey
The much discussed report was trans
mltted to the senate Saturday by Presl-
dent Wilson in response to second reso-
luton of request adopted after tie SEN
ate had failed to hear from the White
House concerning its first resolution
adopted in November
Nhlle estimates oI the number OF
| troops required for a mandatory vary
| from $1,000 to 100000, Gen Hartford de
clared that IN his judgment $4,000 would
be needed for the first year The cost of
the mandate was estimated at 1915, 900 900
Tor the first year, including SSS, 500, 900 I, "a
the army and navy, and at $756, 100000
| for the first years.
/ Thirteen &c tments in favor of the
| United states accepting a mandatory and
thirteen against acceptance were contain
| ed in the report
| he principal arguments in favor Were
that the United States as zone of the
| chief contributors in the formation of the
league of nations, was morally bound ia
accept, that its mandatory would insure
peace to the world erossways that the
building of railroads would offer oppor-
tunties for American capital and that
| there would be great trade advantages
that intervention would definitely stou
i further massacres of Armenians and other
II Christians and give justice to the Turks
Serbs, Greeks and other people and that
! unless the United States assumes respon
sibility in this region, international ieal
ouses probably would result in the con
tinuance ''of the unspeakabe misrule O
; the Turks"
Better millions for mandate thai
! billions for war. says Gen. Hartford Il
: America accepts mandate for the region
visited by this mission it will ndoubtedl!
do so from a strong sense of internationa
duty and at the unanimous desire so ex
. pressed at least, of its colleagues in tn
. league OF nations.
Accepting this difficult task withou
a previously securing the assurance of con
ditions would be fatal to success. TIL
> United States should make its own cor
! ditions, certainly before and not after az
ceptance, for there are a multitude of il
terests that will conflict with what an
American would consider a proper admin
stration of the country.
= In our opinion there should
specific pledges in the terms of formi
agreements with France and England an
a. definite approval from Germany and Ru
r. STA to the opposition made of Turkey an
70 Trans Caucasa of a pledge to respeC
e. them >
,fI In administration and sanitation, til
u report adds America could aid tn
i peoples residing in the territory an
against the expense it would have til
: amount now given charitably for nea
70 Eastern aid
n The principal argument against a
K American mandate were that the Unite
IS States had prior and nearer foreign oil
r legations; that there was every likelihoo
A. that ambitious nations would continue
n manoeuvre to control this region; that
mandate would weaken the American D.
in sition relative to the Monroe Doctrine
Il that the United States would be brougl
t into the policies of the Old World CO..
Id trary to its traditional policy; that
ar would be put to great expense involviI
an increase of the army and navy; TIL
intervention would rob it of its stateg
advantage given by the Atlantic Ocean
that it's line of communication to Co
rs stantinople would be at the mercy of Il
other naval powers, especially Great Br
ain; that peace and justice would be q
IN sured under any other of the gre
". powers and that humanitarianism begi
n at home"
rs Gen Harbord's report was dated Oct.
81 1919, and consists of a dozen typewrtt
n volumes, with separate. findings by
he large staff of expert assistants, some
i'll whom aided the American peace co
We mission at Paris.