A TASK FOR AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17295, 20 October 1919, Page 7

A TASK FOR AMERICA.

MANDATE IN NEAR EAST.

SHARING BRITAIN'S BURDEN.

APPEAL BY MR. LLOYD GEORGE By Telegraph Association—Copyright (Received 8.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Oct. 17. Mr. Lloyd George, in his speech at Sheffield, said that the delay in signing peace with Turkey was attributable to the fact that it was not known whether the United States was going to share the burdens of civilisation outside America. He was rather pleased that the Americans were brought face to face with this, because some Americans used *to accuse the " grabbing British Empire" of getting a piece of land at every available opportunity. He thought the Americans now realised that Britain was undertaking great duties for civilisation at a great cost to herself. It was a task which providence had sent to the British , people and which they were discharging in various parts of the world. He begged the men of Britain's kith and kin in America to join in that task, otherwise he did not know ! what was going to happen to parts lof the Turkish Empire. Neither | Britain nor France could undertake it. All the people who had been living in the shadow of a great tyranny for centuries were appealing to America to come to help .?nd protect them. He hoped the appeal would not be in vain. " We are undertaking a similar responsibility ourselves," said the Premier, "and we find we are approaching the limit of our strength, and that it is unwise to go further. It would be the height of unwisdom for us to disarm until the Turkish problem is settled. It is vital to the British Empire arid to the world that it be settled properly and promptly." By December 31, said Mr. Lloyd George, 98 per cent, qf Britain's conscripted soldiers would have been returned to their homes, and by the time the Conscription Act expired, there would not be a single conscript who had not returned home.

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WHAT BRITAIN MAY OFFER.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

(Reed. 5.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 17.

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the former United States Ambassador to Turk? y, is returning from Europe. Unofficially, he expressed the opinion that Britain would grant the United States equal rights in the Straits of Gibraltar if the United States would accept a mandate for Armenia, Anatolia, and Constantinople. Mr. Morgenthau said that he would advocate the acceptance of such a mandate. He estimated that the cost to the United States would be 300,000,000 dollars (over £72,000,000) to build up Constantinople as a prosperous centre in the Near East.