Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-27
To PREVENT
LAUSANNE TREATY
RATIFICATION IS ON

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-An or
ganized movement to Illustrate rati-
fication of the Lausanne treaty by
the United States senate was under
taken at the Yale club Saturday by a
group of influential Americans, head
ed by James W. Gerard former am
bassador to Germany, and now chair
man of the American committee for
the independence of Armenia
A memorandum previously signed
by 100 statesmen, high army officers,
financiers, church officials, editors
and foreign relief workers, was APP
proved for presentation to President
Coolidge, Secretary of State Hughes,
and individual senators before whom
the treaty will come for ratification
at the forthcoming session of con-
gress.
The document charges that the
state departments ENJOYS at Lau-
same sacrificed to Mustapha kemal
the rights of American citizens in
Turkey and threw overheard the Ar
menian people, whom this country
was pledged to protect-in exchange
for the Chester concessions to a few
American business men, since trans
ferred to alien control.
1T is morally an indefensible
treaty" said the memorandum. at
is an utterly humiliating and pur-
poseless treaty. 1t surrenders every
Mo -i~rI,4
ders impossible the continuance of
American educational and phiIan-
thropic enterprises in that country
1t ignores our solemn pledge to Ar
menia.
The economic concessions it pur-
ports to secure for few Americans
are admitted to be of dubious value,
and have already been transferred
into alien hands.
1--WE believe that the honor of
America, no less than every dictate
OF reason, demands that the senate
reject the Lausanne treaty"
Later the document says: eff, as
appears, the Chester concession was
the inducement leading to the sacri-
flee Of American rights and the
abandonment of Armenia, then, in
the light of our fuller knowledge of
the illusory nature Of this concession
no longer even in American hands
the only plausible argument in IA
vor of the Lausanne treaty becomes
untenable"
The attack on the treaty was led
today by Mr.. Gerard, Oscar S. Strauss
former ambassador to Turkey; Cap
tain Paxton Hibben, former Russian
and Near East relief worker; Profess
sor A. D. F. Hamlin, of Columbia
university; Professor Albert Bush
nell Hart, of Harvard, and DR.. Paul
8. Leinbach, of Philadelphia.
Attached to the memorandum was
a list of names which included Gov.
ernor Alfred E. Smith, of New York:
Alton B. Parker, Bishop William Z.
Manning, of New York; Governor
Lee M. Russell, of Mississippi; Will.
liam Guggenheim, Bishop Thomas F. |
Gailor, of Tennessee; Bishop Philip |
M. Rhinelander. of Pennsylvania; |
Josephus Daniels, Rabbi Stephen S. |
Wise, of New York; DR.. Frank |
Crane, HI. N. MeCracken, president
Of Vassar college; Rev. DR.. S. -Parkes
Cadman, George Haven Putnam.
Judge Henry Wade Rogers, Right |
Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rector of
the Catholic University of America,
and Haley Fiske, president of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance COM
pany.
The gathering of 81, attending a
luncheon of the American commit
tee for independence of Armenia, of
which Mr.. Gerard is chairman, ap-
proved a memorandum, protesting
the treaty, signed by more than 100
OF the nations leading figures, in
GLIDING Alton 3. Parker, Governor
Alfred E. Smith, Governor Russell,
of mississippi; Bishop Gailor, of Ten
nessee; Bishop Manning, of New
York; Bishop Rhinelander, of Penn
sylvania; William Guggenheim and
JoSephuS Daniels =.