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PRESIDENT GIVES
VIEW ON PROBLEMS
NOTE FROM WHITE HOUSE
SAYS ENGAGEMENT MUST
BE ENTERED INTO AMONG
NATIONS NOT TO VIOLATE
OR PERMIT VIOLATION OF
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF
ONCE GREAT EMPIRE

Washington, Jan. 23.-A "public
and solemn" engagement among the
great powers mot to violate or to
permit the violation of the terri
torial integrity of Russia" is re-
garded by President Wilson as the
sine qua non of an attempt at the
pacification of Armenia and the
other states bordering the once
great empire.
The presidents views are set
forth in note transmitted to Paul
Hymans, president of the league of
nations assembly, by Acting Secre-
tary Davis, under date of January
18, and made public tonight at the
state department..
"The distressful situation of
Armenia which has been invaded by
both the Turkish Nationalists and
the Soviets, is only one detail of
the vast Russian problem, the pres
ident says and he "most earnestly
urged" his' conviction that it is only
by a general and comprehensive
treatment of the whole problem,
"only by full and generous coopera-
tion of the principal powers, that a
hopeful approach to the pacification
and independence of Armenia can
be found"
The president says he has never
believed that the problems raised by
the Bolsheviki coup de'etat could be
solved By military actions from the
outside and he expresses the hope
"that the recent tragical events on
the Polish front and in the Crimea
have convinced all the world that
armed invasion is not the way to
bring peace to the people of Rus
sia."
Mr.. Wilson adds that these
events have only strengthened his
conviction that the Russian revolu-
ton, "benificient in it's main pur-
poses" must be developed to a salts
factory conclusion by the Russians
themselves, with such help from the
outside as may be voluntarily re-
ceived."
President Wilson's note to Paul
Hymans, president of the assembly
of the league of nations, on media
tion in Armenia, as transmitted by
Acting Secretary Davis, of the
state department, follows:
"Your telegram of December 26,
1920, transmitted a message re-
ceived by the council from the Bri-
tish government, concerning Ar
menia, stating that Armenia is re-
ported to be under control of soviet
Russia, and suggesting that the
president instruct the American
high commission at Constantinople
to take up the matter with the al
lied high commissioners, has been
received and read with interest by
the president, who instructs me to
reply as follows:
"The president does not deem it
practicable to instruct the Ameri-
can high commissioner at Constanti-
nople to act for him in this matter.
AS was stated in my telegram Of
December 16, 1920, he has chosen
the Hon. Henry Morgenthau, who
has been prepared to act for him in
such steps as may be taken. Before
instructing him to proceed, however,
the president has been waiting the
definite assurances and information
from all the principal powers inter-
ested, as requested in his cable of
November 20, 1920, defining the
conditions under which he would en-
deavor to mediate.
"The message from the British
prime ministers transmitted by you
on December 26 would seem to in
dicate the impracticability or fulfill
ty of the presidents addressing him
self, at least in the first instance, to
the Armenians and Kemalists. The
president is inclined to share this
view and to feel that no solution
can be had without getting at the