Show US AMUR ACCEPT MANDATOR PRESIDENT SEEKS permission OF CONGRESS TO TAKE ARMENIAN MANDATE declares declare he it Is speaking in the spirit and in accord with the Wis darn of the greatest Grea teft christian peoples people Mattil prisident wilson on may 21 24 iw ent ait a towage to it congress al asking authority to nept ne pt on belmis of dot ili thi hlatta tile ti mandate armenia Arta enla by the irei ulen lu ili their itier conference c at san an itono itelo 4 the president ain asked tor for tle the man elate on the ground of duty to the armenian arac ulan people to them in their struggles toward independent ile he declared lilo bill belief thal blidt litt tion would mould be supported by lie great ioa bority of if the american people speaks speak christians with wish acknowledging that hla fits reque fit well wai laid aid lafore before conw contrera rerA at a very critical ahne timea the president asir ted that he be anade the jn in the he confidence that lie he was speaking jpe aking lit in the spirit find in accordance with the of file greatest christian peoples lie he to congress not to turn irn away auy from tile the invitation K arid and solemnly ox extended ended to us ui by the tji cou council isell at san itelo but on the other ollier hand to 0 o penult him to url undertake Iler lake the mandate for the protection ut of ow jui Armen armenians ians against the turks turk jn the mino nican e tile the notified con congress grems that lie had dec idled to accept the lie invitation tendered jilin him hy by the allied prem lerm to act its as arbitrator in fixing the boundary between turkey and armenia Armen lu tills this office tho president way inay accept I 1 without author Izat foiA of congress con grest 1 I notwithstanding the conflict confidence nee with which the lie president lira bellef belief that flint the mandate would bo be to the lie people of the file united santes n fits il met with it hilly chilly reception in both the senate and house |