Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1920-05-28
Acceptance BY United States Of
Of Request to Make Armenia
Our Ward Urged.
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
Makes Request In Belief That He Es
presses The Wish Of American
People-Amerlea's Cause =
Our Own,


his message to Congress asking au-
thority to accept a mandate for Ar
menia, cited the resolution adopted
by the Senate this month expressing
the hope that stable government,
proper protection of individual liber-
ties and the full realization of uatio-
naltsttc aspirations may soon be At
tanned by the Armenian people, and
that q warship and marines be sent %
the port Of Baum to protect Ameri.
can interests.
After referring to the Senate reso-
luton, the President In his message.
eaid:
II received and read this document
with great interest and with genuine
qualification, not only because it en-
bodied my own convictions and feel
ings with regard to Armenia and its
people. but also. and more particularly,
because 1t seemed to me the voice of
the American people expressing their
genuine convictions and deep Chris.
tian sympathies, and intimating the
line OF duty which seemed to them to
lie clearly before us.
Refers to Appeal Of Premiers.
II cannot but regard It as a provi-
Dental, and not as mere casual coin
icdence, that almost at the same time
I received Information that the con.
ference Of statemen now sitting at San
Reno for the purpose Of working out
the details of peace with the Central
Powers which it was not feasible to
work out in the conference at Paris,
had formally resolved to address q
definite appeal to this government to
accept mandate for Armenia.
I'm response to the invitation Of the
council at San Reno, I urgently ad-
wise 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 1t will be the
wish Of the people Of the United States
that this should be done. The SYM
pathy with Armenia has proceeded
from no single portion Of our people,
but has come with extraordinary spon-
tanefty and sincerity from the whole
of the great body of Christian men and
women in this country by whose free
will offerings Armenia has practically
been saved at the most critical juno
ture OF its existence At their hearts
this great and generous people have
made the cause of Armenia their own.
1t Is to this people and to their govern
ment that the hopes and earnest ex-
pectations of the struggling people OF
Armenia turn as they now emerge
from a period of 1ndescribable suffer.
ing and peril, and hope that the Con-
gress will think it wise to meet this
hope and expectation with the utmost
liberality. I know from unmistakable
evidence given by responsible repre-
sentatives of many peoples struggling
towards independence and peaceful
life again that the government of the
United States is looked to with extra
ordinary trust and confidence, and I
believe that it would do nothing less
than arrest the hopeful processes of
civilization If We were to refuse the
request to become the helpful friends
and advisers of such of these people
as we may be authoritatively and for
mally requested to guide and assist.
II am conscious that am urging
upon the Congress a very critical
choice, but make the suggestion in
the confidence that I am speaking In
the spirit and In accordance with the
wishes Of the greatest of the Chris.
tian peoples"