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    Hellenic Resources Network
    Saturday, 3 April 2004

    Various Western Quotes [on the Armenian Genocide]

    Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
    U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, 1919

    When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they
    were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this
    well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt
    to conceal the fact. . . . I am confident that the whole history of the
    human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres
    and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the
    sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.

    British Viscount James Bryce
    October 6, 1915, speech

    The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be
    ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of
    unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the
    Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the
    favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the
    month of April.

    Count Wolff-Metternich
    German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire July 10, 1916, cable to the German
    Chancellor

    In its attempt to carry out its purpose to resolve the Armenian question by
    the destruction of the Armenian race, the Turkish government has refused to
    be deterred neither by our representations, nor by those of the American
    Embassy, nor by the delegate of the Pope, nor by the threats of the Allied
    Powers, nor in deference to the public opinion of the West representing
    one-half of the world.

    Theodore Roosevelt
    May 11, 1918, letter to Cleveland Hoadley Dodge

    . . . the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the
    failure to act against Turkey is to condone it . . . the failure to deal
    radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the
    future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

    Herbert Hoover
    The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 1952

    The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were
    massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School
    collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries - all cumulate to
    impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

    Jimmy Carter
    May 16, 1978, White House ceremony

    It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916,
    there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people,
    probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there
    weren't any Nuremberg trials.

    Ronald Reagan
    April 22, 1981, proclamation

    Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the
    Cambodians which followed it, . . . the lessons of the Holocaust must never
    be forgotten.

    George Bush
    April 20, 1990, speech in Orlando, Florida

    [We join] Armenians around the world [as we remember] the terrible massacres
    suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The
    United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic
    and private relief efforts.
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