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Show AMERICA EXPECTED 10 MEfK COUNCIL REQUESTS THE UNITED STATES TO TAKE MANDATE FOR STRICKEN COUNTRY. President Wilson's Solution of the Adriatic Problem Preferred by Italy to Pact of London. Turks are Claiming Erzerum. San Remo. The supreme council is Bending a formal request to President Wilson that the United States government govern-ment take the mandate for Armenia. ( The council is leaving to President Wilson the arbitration of the differences differ-ences over the boundaries of Armenia. The council awarded a mandate for Mesopotamia and Palestine to Great Britain and a mandate for Syria to x ranee. There seems to be a division on the part of the council as to whether the region of Erzerum and its vicinity should be included in the territory of the Armenian republic. The Turkish nationalists are strongly claiming Erzerum for themselves. In placing Palestine under a British mandate the council established within with-in the ancient limits of the Holy Land what is called "the national home for the Jews." The terms of the mandate protect the national rights of Jewish citizens of other countries. That is to say, a Jew of American, British, French or other nationality may retain his nationality, na-tionality, although he Is also a citizen of the state of Palestine. The rights of Arabs also are protected, there being be-ing GOO.000 in Palestine and 100,000 Jews. The mandate is limited generally'" gen-erally'" by what is known as the Balfour Bal-four declaration. British forces have been in occupation of Palestine since the defeat of the Turkish forces by the British field marshal, Viscount AI-lenby. AI-lenby. The Adriatic question was brought before the supreme council. The Italian Ital-ian premier proposed a settlement that followed generally President Wilson's note of December 9. It varies, however, how-ever, to include a constitution for the buffer state of Flume, to which both the French and British premiers objected ob-jected on the ground that it limited too greatly the character of the new state. |