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Report that Ottoman Turkey is seeking to exterminate the Armenian nation. July 16, 1915.


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Telegram Received.

From Constantinople
Dated July 16, 1915
Recd. July 20, 8:10 AM.

Secretary of State,
Washington.

858, July 16, 1 p.m.
Have you received my 841? Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion.

Protests as well as threats are unavailing and probably incite the Ottoman government to more drastic measures as they are determined to disclaim responsibility for their absolute disregard of capitulations and I believe nothing short of actual force which obviously the United States are not in a position to exert would adequately meet the situation. Suggest you inform belligerent nations and mission boards of this.

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR [Henry Morgenthau],
Constantinople

[soyer]

Some of the incidents he has his ghostwriter tell us, if true, must have done wonders for his bloated ego. For example, at one point he once again manipulates the Turks to acquiesce to his wishes by managing to get only a handful of Ottoman Britons and French shipped off. When he comes back to tell the nervously awaiting flock the good news, they are so stunned in disbelief that the women fall on their hands to kiss his hands, and the men embrace him (in the case of the latter, much to his "violent protestations"... Morgenthau wanted to make clear he was a manly man). That kind of hero-worship must have gotten pretty addictive.

However, the greatest example, to my mind, of Ambassador Morgenthau's mission to present himself as a heroic savior is...





...His decision to appear in 1919's RAVISHED ARMENIA as HIMSELF! What an egomaniac..!