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WHAT THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN (AKA THE GUARDIAN) PUBLISHED 94 YEARS AGO - LABOUR PROPOSAL FOR ARMENIA FRANCE AND CILICIA
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
February 20, 2014
What The Manchester Guardian (aka The Guardian) published 94 years
ago - LABOUR PROPOSAL FOR ARMENIA FRANCE AND CILICIA -
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The Advisory Committee of the Labour party on International questions
have issued a long resolution in which they state that the Labour
party protests against the treatment of Armenia by the Allied Powers.
In the opinion of the Labour party the minimum programme which the
Allied Governments are bound in honour to carry out includes: -
1. The entire region known as Turkish Armenia must be released
absolutely from Turkish sovereignty.
2. The best settlement would have been to place the whole of this
region for a term of years and under strict conditions under the
control of a single mandatory Power, charged to maintain religious
and racial equality between the different elements of the population,
to promote goodwill between them, and to train them to govern their
country in common. But the party recognise that if America stands
aside the country may have at least temporarily to be divided. But
if a mandate for the south-western districts (Cilicia, Diarbekr,
Kharput) is given to France, they demand that it shall be conferred
under the strict conditions referred to above, and that at a date
to be specified in the mandate the population shall be given an
opportunity of deciding whether they wish to govern themselves as a
separate State or to reunite with the rest of Armenia.
3. The remainder of Turkish Armenia ought to be attached at once to
the independent Armenian Republic, already in being in Trans-Caucasia.
4. The party protest against any idea of subordinating the Armenian
settlement to considerations of Indian policy.
The Manchester Guardian (aka The Guardian) Friday, February 27,
1920 p. 7 c. 3
>From ‘’The Times of the Armenian Genocide: Reports in
the British Press (1914-192)’’ -
Author
Katia Peltekian
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
February 20, 2014
What The Manchester Guardian (aka The Guardian) published 94 years
ago - LABOUR PROPOSAL FOR ARMENIA FRANCE AND CILICIA -
[Guardians-first-front-pag-001.jpg]
The Advisory Committee of the Labour party on International questions
have issued a long resolution in which they state that the Labour
party protests against the treatment of Armenia by the Allied Powers.
In the opinion of the Labour party the minimum programme which the
Allied Governments are bound in honour to carry out includes: -
1. The entire region known as Turkish Armenia must be released
absolutely from Turkish sovereignty.
2. The best settlement would have been to place the whole of this
region for a term of years and under strict conditions under the
control of a single mandatory Power, charged to maintain religious
and racial equality between the different elements of the population,
to promote goodwill between them, and to train them to govern their
country in common. But the party recognise that if America stands
aside the country may have at least temporarily to be divided. But
if a mandate for the south-western districts (Cilicia, Diarbekr,
Kharput) is given to France, they demand that it shall be conferred
under the strict conditions referred to above, and that at a date
to be specified in the mandate the population shall be given an
opportunity of deciding whether they wish to govern themselves as a
separate State or to reunite with the rest of Armenia.
3. The remainder of Turkish Armenia ought to be attached at once to
the independent Armenian Republic, already in being in Trans-Caucasia.
4. The party protest against any idea of subordinating the Armenian
settlement to considerations of Indian policy.
The Manchester Guardian (aka The Guardian) Friday, February 27,
1920 p. 7 c. 3
>From ‘’The Times of the Armenian Genocide: Reports in
the British Press (1914-192)’’ -
Author
Katia Peltekian