Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-12-03
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League Of Nations Assembly Is
Trying to Find Some Way
to Save Armenia.
AMERICA ASKED TO MEDIATE
Balfour Suspects Plan to Recognize
kemal Pasha--Poles and 5oIshe-
Wiki Resume Negotiations
Affairs In oreeee--Murders
and ReprIsals In Dublin.
By EpWARp W. PIckARp.

What shall be done to save Armenian
That is the question that absorbed
much Of the attention of the League
Of Nations assembly last week, and 1t
is not yet solved, nor, apparently, In
the way Of being solved. The Armeni-
an problem was forced on the atten-
tion OF the assembly by the repeated
questions Of members Of delegations
whose countries would not be involved,
and the representatives Of the greater
powers were compelled to take 1t up.
The net result. so far, Is the appoint
nent Of a commission which win ex-
anime the Armenian situation. Sir
Robert Cecil. South Africa. is its chair
man, and the other members are: Sem
htor Henri La Fontaine. Belgium; Doc
oor Fridjof Nansen, Norway; Honorio
Pueyrredon, Argentina; Signor Schan-
n. Italy. and Rene viviani, France.
In the course of the debate viviani
proposed that the league council
should seek some government which
WIN mediate for Armenia with the
Turkish nationalists and try to OBJ
tain cessation Of hostllities. 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, a
new situation had arisen and new
solution was possible. The United
States is not asked to send an expe-
ditionary force and only small out
lay of money win be necessary, since
we are asked merely to represent Ar
menla by entering negotiations toward
ending warfare with Kemal Pasha.
1t is believed In Geneva that the Ma
tionallst leader would welcome Amer
ica as mediator because the fixing
Of the boundaries Of Armenia was
left to President Wilson.
M. 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 1t was not a member of the
league would not interfere. Some cor.
respondents saw in all this talk an
endeavor to '1ure" the United States
into the league. Mr.. Balfour saw more
than this in the French plan. He be
lieved 1t 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 al
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 'coult
be found anywhere In the world, ant
said the league could not send an ex
pedition into Asia Minor unless it wa
under the control Of some treaty sign
ing power.
Various delegates asserted their be
lief that the United States would nov
accept the mandate and furnish tn
expeditionary force, which, according
TO Doctor Nansen Of Norway, woul,
require 10000 men and $100,0O0,O0C
High French officials in Paris said Of
Wednesday that France would NO
send a man. or spend a franc on Al
Armenian mandate, but intimated tina
she might ask Kemal Pasha wha
changes in the treaty would make
acceptable to him.
The league subcommission on nev
members has decided not to adm
states carved out Of the former Rus
sian empire-Lithuania, Latvia, E'
thonia and Ukraine; and undoubtedl
this means that Azerbaidjan, Georgi
and other states in the Caucasus wi