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Show U. S. RIGHTS IN WKEYUPffiD Ccveus Nations Warned By American Envoy At Lausanne BY JOirV HADLEV. InU't-nalJonnl News Service. LAUSANNE, Nov. 2o Speaking at the moment when the delegates were taking up the future disposition ofj Mosul, the rlcheBt oil field in the Neai j East. Richard Washburn Child, Amer- ican ambassador to Italy and spokes-1 man for the American delogatlon of j observers, served warning upon the ; Near East peace conference thlsl afternoon that American commercial ! rights in Turkey must be protected j and respected. Just as the United States was the first nation to demand the "openl door" policy In China, so was Am-1 bapsador Child, speaking in behalf; of America, the first to go on record at Lausanne in support of equal commercial com-mercial opportunity for all natlon3 in the Near Bast Ambassador Child's vigorous Bpeech bi r.'r- the conference caused a sen-1 nation and tonight the headquarters? of the vnrlous delegations buzzed with comment Some supported the American viewpoint view-point and others criticised it as "interference "in-terference " The accusation was made that the United States was attempting to obtain all the benefits po&slblc .vithout assuming any obligation by signing the Near East treaty. "Territory grabbing powers ' were scored by tho American observer, who said : ' The American policy Is not that of some other powers which are reaching forth for territorial privlli gi a on foreign soil. The Amelrean polTcj de.Mp-es dnly equal commercial opportunity oppor-tunity The Fnlted States envies no nibcr nation and w ants nothing that Is owned by another nation. Rut the United Stales doe3 want justPje nd equal opportunity. She seeks on.y the protection of her nationals and their lit bt." "America does not Intend to seek special privileges America has representation repre-sentation here for the protection of her just and legal rights and to obtain ob-tain assurance of an open door" It wus generally believed that Am-boAtador Am-boAtador Child's .statement regarding tho "protection of the rights of American Amer-ican nationals." obviously referred to tho Mosul oil field, the next big problem prob-lem for the conference to settle. During the mornimc the American ambassador had conferred with Eull-therlos Eull-therlos Venlselos, head of the Greek delegation, regarding the exchange of Qreetf and Turkish war prisoners and the problem rvf Christian refugees who had flooded Greece. The Mosul district lies in Mesopotamia Meso-potamia and contains minerals of Incalculable aluo. British capitalists have long had tholr eyes upon It 1 Originally Great Rrilaln held a man-dato man-dato for Mesopotamia, which Includes Mosul, but thero was so much unrest that Mesopotamia was converted Into an Independent kingdom, the kingdom of Irak. Turkey now claims Mosul and the right to givo out any concessions conces-sions for development there. |