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Show EX-PRESIDENT TAFT AGREES WITH BRYAN ABERDEEN, Wash., May 26. Ex-Pre6idcnt Taft said today ho vas inclined to agree with W. J. Bryan, vho announced his opposition opposi-tion to the mandate. He aaid, however, how-ever, Armenia should be helped because be-cause conditions there verc about 53 bad as thoy could be, but that the mandate w?.3 "open to diocuo-sion." diocuo-sion." "The Armenian question," he said, "is too complex to say offhand off-hand whether we should accept the mandate proposed by Mr. Wilson. I notice that Mr. Bryan is opposed oppos-ed to it, and 1 am inclined to think Mr. Bryan io about right.- If President Pres-ident Wilson had included Turkey In his proposal perhaps I should favor the suggestion. To undertake under-take a mandate for Armenia would mean the dispatch of a large part of our army to that country, entail en-tail a heavy cost and Involve us In complications for a long time to come." |