ARMENIAN MANDATE
PRKSi'PRNT WILSON SEEKS , ACCEPTANCE. (AOSTBAWAB - Nr^v ZEAI.ANI! rAEI.F 43S(!W.\7IGK.t WASHINGTON, 25th May. President Wilson has sent a special message to Congress urging that he be granted power to accept the mandate over Armenia. The message points out thai the Ssnute recently passed' a resolution' requesting tile President to send warships to Batoum, and expressing sympathy* with Armenia, whose independence, the United States already recognised. A careful canvass of members indicates that Congress will not grant President -Wilson the necessary authority, on the ground that the cost and "responsibilities of the undertaking are too great a.t this time.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 124, 26 May 1920, Page 7
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99ARMENIAN MANDATE Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 124, 26 May 1920, Page 7
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