In the treaty of Sevres there is an article referring to an Arbitration by Americans, more precicely the Woodraw Wilson Arbitration. Does this exist and whether it implicates land issues of Armenians?
Under 89 of the Treaty of Sevres, US President Woodrow Wilson would adjudicate on the future boundary between Armenia and Ottoman State. Under Article 90 , Ottoman State would transfer the Vilayets of Trebizond , Erzerum, Bitlis and Van etc to Armenia subject to Wilson's final arbitral award. Then a boundary commission was to be established to settle the frontier between these two states. I am not an international jurist regarding Armenian land issues under Wilson's arbitration. However the Treaty of Sevres was never ratified by the major European powers. Greece ratified it as Smyrna was to be included in the Hellenic Kingdom in 5 yrs time subject to a plebiscite by the Smrniots to join with the motherland. This never happened as Smyrna ended up being torched in Sept 1922 by the kemalists. Finally the Bolsheviks took control of Armenia in December 1920. Hope this helps.
You may want to try The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson's Secret Plan for Peace. It provides a good account of Wilson’s involvement in the postwar division of Europe and does touch on Sevres and the Armenian issue.
Margaret Macmillan's book "Paris 1919 - Six Months that Changed the World" contains a Chapter 29 "Atatürk and the Breaking of Sèvres" (pp. 427-455). This is the best historic overview I am aware of. Pages 448-450 are particularly relevant to your question. Macmillan relies in part on C.J. Walker "Armenia - the Survival of a Nation" (London 1990), however, I don't have that book.
P.S. On p. 449, Macmillan says that Wilson actually did draw up Armenia's borders and gave it 42,000 square kilometers of Turkish territory. The source provided is the book by Walker.
thank you everyone for your comments. i just wanted to know whether Wilson who gave the borders can still be applied today legally. i know the treaty does not exist since it was not ratified but the Arbitration may. its questionable. i shall look at the books youmentioned all
I would recommend Professor Richard Hovannisian's 4 vols work on the Armenian Republic. This book is definitive work on the short-lived Armenian Republic.
Ask your university library or public one to order these volumes on interlibrary loan.
https://www.academia.edu/838688/Richard_Hovannisian_The_Republic_of_Armenia_Volume_IV_1997_book_review_in_English_
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