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Show PROTESTS PLAN OF M OR GEN TH A U FOR ARMENIA MANDATE (Ciiicaxo Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON. May 24. The proposal submitted by Henry Morcenthau, former American ambassador to Turkey, to President Wilson in Paris, to establish a mandatory by the United States over Constantinople. Anatolia and Armenia, announced veslerday in dUpntcbes from Paris, met with instant opposition on tile part of the Armenians in America and in Europe as well, according to advices from Paris. Simultaneously with this announcement came a suggestion from unofficial quarters quar-ters that Morgenthau be made governor of Constantinople. Miran Sevasly, representative rep-resentative in the United States of the Armenian national delegation at Paris and chairman of the Armenian National Union of America, declared today that If this suggestion should be carried out it would mean the continuance of the supremacy su-premacy of Turkey in Asia Minor. "The Armenians will never aree to such a mandatory," said Mr. Sevasly. "Mr. Morgenthau knows well that the Armenian 'peoule, whose oppo-tunity lias come at last to be free and independent, will unanimously reject any mandate arrangement ar-rangement that couples their country with Turkey. We have suffered under the barbarous Turks for centuries, and at last our hour has come. If the powers have beenfooled auain by the clever politicians poli-ticians of Turkev and undertake to maintain main-tain a strong empire, even tinder a mandatory, man-datory, our cause is lost. Civilization demands de-mands that we shall have a free Christian Chris-tian rmenla, and civilization will not see Armenia again dominated by the 'unspeakable 'un-speakable Turk.' "The. Turklsh-Wilsonkfn league, recently recent-ly organized hy the Young Turks, Is merely a camouflage to create pro-Turkish sentiment in the I'nited States lor the perpetuation of Turkish domination In Aia Minor, and even as or old Asia in Europe It is to be feared that the Turks will continue to be considered the spoiled children of Europe." |