Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-24

dent Wilson's note to Paul Symans,
president Of the league OF nations as
sembly. on mediation in Armenia as
State Davis follows:
your telegram of December 26
transmitting a message received by
the council from the British govern
ment concerning Armenia stating Ar
menia is reported to be under the con-
troll of soviet Russia and suggesting
that the president instruct the Ameri-
can high commissioner at Constanti-
nople to take up the matter with the
allied high commissioners, has been
received and read with interest by the
president who instructs me to reply
as follows:
The president does not deem 1t prac-
ticable to instruct the American COM
missioner at Constantinople to act for
him in this matter. As was stated in
my telegram of December Is he has
chosen the Honorable Henry Morgan
thau who has been prepared to act for
him in such steps as may be taken.
Before instructinS him to proceed now
ever. the president has been awaiting
the definite assurances and informa-
ton from all the principal powers in
terested as requested in his cable of
November so defining conditions under
which he would endeavor to mediate.
lister transmitted by you on December
Is would seem to Indicate the imprac-
ticability or futility of the presidents
addressing himself at least in the first
instance to the Arncnians and kemal.
ists- The president is inclined to share
his view and to feel that no solution
can be had without first getting at the
source of the trouble.
Pending receipt of information and
assurance requested by the president
in his telegram of November so 1t is
deemed wise to state the problem as
the president views it its causes and
possible remedies 1t would appear
that the immediate cause of trouble
IN Armenia and Turkey has been the
treaty of Sevres. Admittedly this was
a difhcult question With which to con-
fond but the treaty was drafted by the
allied powers and the trouble has aris
en- over the failure of certain factions
to accept this treaty and of the allies
to enforce it This Is a question over
which the president has no control and
measures which he might take or re-.
commend in this direction would be de-
pendent upon hearty cooperation and
support of the allied powers.
The British prime minister calls
attention to the fact that Armenia is
under the control of Moscow from
which it appears another complication
has developed. The dependence of Ar
menia on soviet Russia is another sit
uation over which the president has
no control and ho sees no action he
could take to free Armenia without
the moral and diplomatic support of
the principal powers which holds prom
ise of peace and accord to the con-
tending parties
There is bitter distrust and fear OF
war all along the Russian borders. 1t
seems futile to bring peace to the Cau-
casus If the result is merely to free
the forces there engaged for new CAM
paigns on other sectors. The distress
full situation of Armenia is but one
detail of this vast Russian problem and
the president most earnestly urges his
conviction that it is only by a general
and comprehensive treatment OF the
whole problem only by full and gen.
erous cooperation of the principal pow
ers that a hopeful approach to the pa
ciicaion and independence of Armenia
can be found
'-The attitude of the president toward
those now in power in Russia has been
frequently and clearly expressed He
regards the Bolsheviki as a '-iolent and
tyrannical minority. He hopes
that the recent ragical events on the
Polish front and in the Crimea have
convinced all the world that armed in
vasion is not the way ts bring peace
to Russia.
The rapidly shifting events of re-
cent months have only strengthened
his conviction that the Russian revo-
luton beneficent in its main purposes
must be developed to a satisfactory
conclusion by the Russians. Help may
from time to time be given from out
side and voluntarily received but at
tcmpts at military coercion can but
end in disaster.
There are elements in the present
situation which give added hope TO
projects OF pacification.
''All the world is weary of war and
the conviction grows among peoples OF
all countries that the military method
offers very little promise of solving the
grave problems of reconstruction.
There is at present no overt civil war
in Russia 1t is now a problem OF the
relations between Central Russia and