Arizona republican., 1921-01-23

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 problem, only by full and generous cooperation of the principal powers,
 that hopeful approach to the pacifi cation and independence of Armenia
 can be found.
 1 Soviet's TyrannicaI Minority
 The attitude of the president to-
 wards those now in power in Russia
 has been frequently and clearly ex-
 pressed. He regards the bolshevid as violent and tyrannical minority, but
 no means representing the real desires
 and purposes of this coup d'etat could be solved by military action from out
 side. He hopes 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 Russia.
 ''The rapidly shifting events of re- cent months have only strengthened his conviction that the Russian revo- Hutton, beneficent in it's main purposes.
 must be developed to a satisfactory lconclusion by the Russians. Help may from time to time be given from out
 side and voluntarily received. but at
 tempts at military coercion can but
 end in disaster
 There are clements in the present
 situation which give added hope to
 projects of qualification. All the world
 is weary of war and the conviction EIOWS 4IuoIlEH peoples or all countries
 that the military method offers very
 little promise of solving the grave
 problems of reconstruction. There is
 at present no avert civil war in Russia.
 It is now a problem of the relations
 between central Russia and the sur rounding smaller national groups. The unrest and instability along the border are caused by bitter and mutual distrust. The struggling new nation-. alities which were formerly partsa& fthe Russian empire are afrala zz<1 arm and return to neaee &z |z] distrust the bolsb8*i2 <| xI| z5 aggressions. The <z $ 1Il zszd <lss S they fear new att4cks-
 Danger from Threatened Offense The great impeachment to peaceful | reconstruction in those troubled border territories. the imminent danger of new hostilities, is caused by the con-
 fusion between offense and defense. | Unless this distinction can be clearly defined, there Is not only small hope | of peace but no hope of a clear per | ception of who is responsible for new wars.
 It is therefore the thought of the l president that the present offers a pe- I culiarly pressing challenge to an at l tempt at general modification on the Russian borders along these lines. Such an attempt seems to the presi- | dent the logical outgrowth-in fact | the only olgical development-of the | request to mediate in the Armenian | conflict and he feels bound in con- | science once more to call this matter to the attention of the associated \ nations
 | Tt is obvious to all that these small | struggling border states will not attack | great Russia unless encouraged by 1 promise of support from the stronger | powers. The president, therefore, be- | lieves that the sine qua non of an l attempt at pacification must be a | public and solemn engagement among the great powers not to take advan- | tage of Russia's stricken condition and | not to violate the territorial integrity II of Russia nor to undertake themselves | any further invasion of Russia nor to H tolerate such invasions by others H Such a public agreement would in H effect say to those now in power in H Russia: You are not menaced from H outside The great powers have vol HI untarily guaranteed you from attack III You can have peace if you want it. HI The responsibility for any new war III which might break out on the Russian H border would then be clearly placed. III If the principal powers represented HI on the council of the league find HI themselves in accord with the presi- HI dent and will assure him of their mor- al and diplomatic support. he will in HI struct his personal representative, Mir H Morgenthau, to proceed at once on his HI mission"