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"My affairs are too important to be trifled with."

One of the ways in which the self-important Henry Morgenthau

strong-armed Talat Pasha, yet another episode where the Ottoman leader

acquiesced to the superior American. From "Ambassador Morgenthau's

Story."

----------------------------------From an Armenian web site is thefollowing insight into the life of

Ambassador Morgenthau... written byANI's Dr. Rouben Paul Adalian:

Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946) wasUnited States ambassador to the

Ottoman Empire during the ArmenianGenocide. A naturalized American from aGerman Jewish family, Morgenthau was

a successful lawyer active in Democratic

Party politics. With the election of

President Woodrow Wilson, he wasappointed United States Ambassador to

the Sublime Porte in 1913. InConstantinople he established personal

contact with the Young Turk leaders ofthe Ottoman Empire, especially the

Minister of the Interior, Talaat, withwhom he unsuccessfully intervened to

alleviate the plight of the Armenian population when beginning in April, 1915,news of the deportations and massacres began to reach the Embassy. TheUS consulates in the interior of the Ottoman Empire relayed a stream of

alarming reports detailing the extent of the measures taken against the

Armenians. Despite the difficulties of communication during the war, Oscar

H. Heizer in Trebizond, Leslie A. Davis in Mamuret-el-Aziz, or Harput(Kharpert in Armenian), and especially Jesse B. Jackson in Aleppo regularly

posted the Embassy with their own eyewitness accounts of the treatment ofthe Armenians. On June 5, 1915, Jackson shared his views about the

persecutions with the Ambassador and concluded that they constituted "acarefully planned scheme to thoroughly extinguish the Armenian race."

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Morgenthau forwarded all the reports to Washington, D.C. Theaccumulating evidence also led Morgenthau to cable the Department of

State on July 16, 1915, with his own dispatch that "a campaign of raceextermination is in progress." Drained by his failure to avert this disaster,

Morgenthau returned to the United States in 1916 and for the remainder ofthe war years he dedicated himself to raising funds for the surviving

Armenians. In 1918 he published Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, a

memoir of his years in Turkey, in which he stressed the German influenceand role in the Ottoman Empire. He titled the chapter on the Armenians,

"The Murder of a Nation." He described the deportations and the atrocitiesas a "cold-blooded, calculating state policy." He avowed at the time: "I am

confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horribleepisode as this." Morgenthau was the father of Henry Morgenthau Jr.,Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of US President Franklin

Delano Roosevelt.

Here is an example of the Ambassador's Thinking

The Independent

February 28, 1920

Shall Armenia Perish?By Henry Morgenthau

Former Ambassador to Turkey, and National

Vice-Chairman of Near East Relief

Two hundred and fifty thousand Christian Armenian women enslaved in

Turkish harems call to the people of America for liberation! One hundred

thousand women already rescued by Near East Relief agents fromharems will perish unless support from America is continued! Two

hundred and fifty thousand children, orphaned by the unspeakable Turks,

are calling in the only English they know, "Bread, Uncle Sam." One

million two hundred thousand destitute, homeless, clotheless adults look

to the giant in the West for the succor that will keep them from

annihilation. What shall our answer be?

If they were good enough to fight and die for us when we needed their

help so sorely, are they not good enough to be given some crumbs from

our plenty?

Since the beginning of the war, the Turkish Armenians have been largely

refugees. A simple, agricultural people, they have been exiled from their

farms and deprived of all opportunity to support themselves. Now, more

than a year after the armistice, they are still living the life of nomads,

able to continue alive only by virtue of American philanthropy. If ever

unmerited suffering called for succor the plight of the Armenians should

be heeded now. A few months more and it may be relief will come too

late for those myriads whom only we can save.

Let the American slogan now become-Serve Armenians for a little while

longer with life's necessities that they may be preserved for the day of

national freedom and rebirth, which no people more truly and greatlydeserves.


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Henry's main squeeze, at right

The belief, held by some persons, that

Turkey has repented and can do not

further harm, is without foundation.

The group that led Turkey into the

war on the side of Germany is now in

the saddle. The Turk has not been

disarmed and these leaders are now

aiding the Tartars. Kurds and

Bolshevists are urging them on to killand rob the surviving Armenians at

every opportunity. The deportations

and massacres during the war were

not spontaneous uprisings of

unorganized mobs, but were the

working out of a well-plotted plan of

wholesale extermination in which

regular Turkish officers and troops

took part as if in a campaign against

an enemy in the field.

More than 2,000,000 persons were deported. The system was about thesame everywhere. The Armenians, men, women and children, would be

assembled in the marketplace. Then the able-bodied men would be

marched off and killed by being shot or clubbed in cold blood at some

spot which did not necessitate the trouble of burial.

Next the women would be sorted out. Agents of the Turk officers picked

the youngest and fairest for their masters' harems. Next the civil officials

had their pick, and then the remainder either were sold for one medjidi-a

silver coin valued at about 80 cents-or were driven forth to be seized by

the lower class Turks and Kurds.

As a last step, those who remained, mothers, grandmothers, children,

were driven forth on their death pilgrimages across the desert of Aleppo,

with no food, no water, no shelter, to be robbed and beaten at every halt,

to see children slain in scores before their eyes, and babies dashed to

death against rocks or spitted on the bayonets of the soldier guards.

If America is going to condone these offenses, if she is going to permit to

continue conditions that threaten and permit their repetition, she is party

to the crime. These peoples must be freed from the agony and danger of

such horrors. They must not only be saved for the present but either thru

governmental action or protection under the League of Nations they

must be given assurance that they will be free in peace and that no harmcan come to them.

HAREMS??

"Two hundred and fifty thousand Christian Armenian womenenslaved in Turkish harems,"indeed! So ordinary Turks had

harems... hmmmm. Contrary to Western belief, the only haremI'm aware of the Sultan's harem wasn't even the kind ofplace where the Sultan could "pick and choose" his sexual

partners. (The harem, by the way, was a Byzantine tradition.)


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Ambassador Morgenthau was playing up to Americans'ignorance of the mysterious ways of the Orient. Not the only

time he expressed a willingness to demonstrate a totaldisregard for the truth.

On the surface, the ambassador seemed to be your plain,everyday Turk-hater common to the period, with descriptionssuch as "The unspeakable Turks." (Morgenthau believed the

Turks were an inferior race, possessing " inferior blood.") Hecertainly was not above repeating (or creating) sensational

stories, such as, "...babies dashed to death against rocks orspitted on the bayonets of the soldier guards." Nor did he careabout citing actual statistics, claiming a deportation of a cool

two million Armenians, more than existed in the entire OttomanEmpire. And check out his pat conclusion: "...not spontaneous

uprisings of unorganized mobs, but ... the working out of awell-plotted plan of wholesale extermination." No wonder

Armenians still love to quote this man. (Californian ProfessorMarashlian calls Morgenthau's testimony " unimpeachable."

Footnotes for Dr. Lowry's examination of the book give

examples of how Fellow Californian Professor Hovannisiancites Morgenthau practically every chance he gets.)

What kind of a man was the ambassador, anyhow?

"Henry Morgenthau, who is frequently quoted by Armenian

Americans, visited the Ottoman Empire with political, nothumanitarian aims. His correspondence with President Wilsonreveals his intent was to uncover or manufacture news whichwould goad the U.S. into joining the war. Given that motive,

Henry Morgenthau sought to vilify the Ottoman Empire, an

enemy of the Triple Entente."(From An Unjust Trial.)

Prof. Heath W. Lowry, in his article entitled "AmericanObservers in Anatolia CA. 1920: The Bristol Papers"states as

follows:"Morgenthau was a confirmed 'Turcophobe' whose hatred forthe Turks was matched only by his unabashed support for theChristian minorities under Ottoman rule...Armenian spokesmen

consistently refer to H. Morgenthau's statements as proof, intheir pursuit to convince the politicians that a so-called

genocide occurred. In his tenure, Mr Morgenthau has never leftIstanbul ..."

Morgenthau himself admits that he never visited easternAnatolia and he let his Armenian aide shape up his diplomatic

propaganda against the Ottoman Empire:

"I have really found it impossible to sit down and dictate a letterquietly. So I have instructed Andonian to take my diary andcopy it with some elaborations of his own. Of course this

relieves me of all responsibility for any error."

Lowry, 1990; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library, New York,

Letters; Box 7 May 11, 1915; Box 1 2 September 1, 1915; Box 8 July 13,


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Hagop S. Andonian

1915)

RELIEVES ME OF ALL RESPONSIBILITYFOR ANY ERROR? That's convenient. It

reveals a lot about the man's character, too.The Ambassador also wrote:

"You probably know that with the approval

of the President (Wilson), I have undertakento write a book. Mr. Andonian is assistingme in the preparation of that work and

owing to his intimate knowledge of the east(Anatolia) and his unusual experience, his services to me are

really indispensable."

Lowry, 1990; Library of Congress, The Papers of Henry Morgenthau, Reel

No 8.

That does not help in building credibilty to the historical valueof his book, "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story." Moreover, as

influential as his Armenian assistants (his primary aide,translator and confidant in Istanbul and Anatolia was anArmenian, Arshag Schmavonian, his secretary, sometime

translator and soon-to-become sometime movie companion[upon traveling to the States] was also an Armenian, HagopAndonian... possibly related to the forger, Aram Andonian,

since "Andonian" may not have been that common a name)could well have had pull with false reports, and even to the

extent of shaping up his memoirs; the ambassador alsoemployed a ghost writer (Burton J. Hendrick) to actually write

his book... deviating by the truckload from his letters anddiaries.

Professor Heath Lowry exposes these deviations in his report,The Story Behind Ambassador Morgenthau's Story.

George A. Schreiner in his "The Craft Sinister: A Diplomatico-Political History of the Great War and its Causes, (G. Albert

Gayer, New York, 1920)" writes about AmbassadorMorgenthaus misleadings of the American government. ("It is

to be hoped that the future historian will not give too muchheed to the drivel one finds in the books of diplomatist-

authors.") The distinguished foreign correspondent (havingserved in Turkey from February through the end of 1915) wrote

Morgenthau a biting December 11,1918 letter, criticizing himfor the fallacies in his unethically written book (Ambassador

Morgenthau's Story).

It seems to me Morgenthau let his ego run away with him,enjoying the notion that his fellow Americans looked upon theambassador as the savior of a Christian people. The intensitywith which he communicated his thoughts (as with the articleabove) provides a strong clue... he must have liked the factthat he came across as a hero. There are a good number of

passages in his ghost-written book where his heroic deeds andattitude is presented (or as Schreiner mocked, his

"omniscience and omnipotence"), even though some of hisletters and diaries paint an altogether different picture.

For example, there is a point where he forces himself on the


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Turkish leaders whenever he wants:

"I shall not be denied an interview," I replied. "I shall come upto the cabinet room at four o'clock. If you refuse to receive me

then, I shall insist on going into the council room anddiscussing the matter with the whole Cabinet. I shall be

interested to learn whether the Turkish Cabinet will refuse toreceive the American Ambassador."

Immediately after which, Enver Pasha is heard to gasp over thephone. As always, Morgenthau gets what he wishes.

The Turkish leaders snap to his every high and mightycommand throughout the book. For example, he brags aboutseeing Talat "nearly every day." Yet, in the first six months of1914, his diaries and letters indicate a Talat tete-a-tete of no

more than twenty times.

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 tohis wishes by managing to get only a handful of OttomanBritons and French shipped off. When he comes back to tell

the nervously awaiting flock the good news, they are sostunned in disbelief that the women fall on their hands to kisshis hands, and the men embrace him (in the case of the latter,

much to his "violent protestations"... Morgenthau wanted tomake clear he was a manly man). That kind of hero-worship

must have gotten pretty addictive.

However, the greatest example, to my mind, of AmbassadorMorgenthau's mission to present himself as a heroic savior

is...

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

And then with great cleverness he would play upon the only

emotion which really actuates the Turk. The descendants of

Osman hardly resemble any people I have ever known. They

do not hate, they do not love; they have no lasting

animosities or affections. They only fear. And naturally they

attribute to others the motives which regulate their own conduct."How stupid you are," Wangenheim would tell Talaat andEnver....

So the Turks are cowards. Check.

The state of war had now made me, as American Ambassador,the protector of all British, French, Serbian, and Belgian subjects.

I realized from the beginning that my task would be a difficultone. On one hand were the Germans, urging their well-knownideas of repression and brutality, while on the other were the

Turks, with their traditional hatred of Christians and their

natural instinct to maltreat those who are helplessly placedin their power.

The Turks are brutes. Check.

The Turks, like most primitive peoples, wear their emotions on thesurface, and with them the transition from exultation to despair is

a rapid one...

The Turks are primitive. Check.

Essentially the Turk is a bully and a coward; he is brave as a lion

when things are going his way, but cringing, abject, andnerveless when reverses are overwhelming him.

The Turks are bullies. Check. And cowards... hey. We alreadycovered cowards. However, let's make a note of how nerveless

Turks are against overwhelming odds. As in Plevna, for example.And as with not settling to have the right of self determination

taken away from them, when the Allies came up with the SevresTreaty. Few chapters in history represented overwhelming odds

as those that governed the birth of the Turkish Republic.

We must realize that the basic fact underlying the Turkishmentality is its utter contempt for all other races. A fairly insanepride is the element that largely explains this strange human

species...

Pretty ironic this haughty fellow is one to look down on pride.Building several empires over the course of a millennium has a

tendency to produce pride, it's a funny thing. And as far as uttercontempt for other races, those other races were allowed to riseto high positions in Ottoman life centuries before blacks got theright to drink from general water fountains in the United States.

At this point, I fear Ambassador Morgenthau just might have losthis faith in human nature. Where, oh where, will he come up withan example to offset this Turkish blight upon humanity? Hold on!

Here it comes...


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What is definitely known about the Armenians, however, is thatfor ages they have constituted the most civilized and most

industrious race in the eastern section of the Ottoman Empire.From their mountains they have spread over the Sultan's

dominions, and form a considerable element in the population ofall the large cities. Everywhere they are known for their industry,their intelligence, and their decent and orderly lives. They are sosuperior to the Turks intellectually and morally that much of the

business and industry had passed into their hands.

Armenian.... Good. Turk.... Bad. Got it...

The most beautiful and healthy Armenian girls could be taken,converted forcibly to Mohammedanism, and made the wives orconcubines of devout followers of the Prophet. Their children

would then automatically become Moslems and so strengthen theempire, as the Janissaries had strengthened it formerly. TheseArmenian girls represent a high type of womanhood and the

Young Turks, in their crude, intuitive way, recognized that themingling of their blood with the Turkish population would exert a

eugenic influence upon the whole.

Armenians.... Salvation for the Turkish Race. Got it.

Say, didn't those Janissaries weaken the empire? I thought thatwas why they were gotten rid of, finally.....

...It was a complete revelation of Turkish mentality; the fact that,above all considerations of race and religion, there are such

things as humanity and civilization, never for a moment enterstheir mind. They can understand a Christian fighting for a

Christian and a Jew fighting for a Jew, but such abstractions as

justice and decency form no part of their conception of things.

Well, I think we have churned enough stomachs and now havean excellent idea of where the good Ambassador was comingfrom. We also now can see why the Armenians and Greekstotally revere this man, and why Armenian professors are

desperate to still cling to his weighty words as the gospel truth.

More on Morgenthau (from guestbook

commentator, Nick, a Briton)

(Bold highlighting by Holdwater)

Re: Please read this messageFrom: NICK

Date: 11/22/1999

CommentsInteresting. But you don't think that somewhere in these

reports was the element of war t ime propaganda? Morgenthau


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is extremely unreliable and his book is not only an example ofwar time propaganda but also of the pathology of 19th centuryracism. I refer you to chapter XXII of Ambassador Morgenthau's

Story, "The Turk Reverts to Ancestral Type". It is full ofnonsensical stories of abducted women forced into harems orauctioned at markets, forced adoption of children and so on.He says the same things about the Germans and Austrians

incidentally deportations of Belgians, wholesale violation of

Belgian women, the abduction by Austrians of Serb childrenand the settlement in parts of Europe vacated by deportees bygood German stock! All stories proved false after the war. Heeven states that the Turks, good with cudgels and knives, are

too dull and unimaginative to come up with the concept ofdeportation it was a German idea!

His book oozes with racial slurs and prejudice----"The mostbeautiful and healthy Armenian girls could be taken, convertedforcibly to Mohammedanism, and made wives or concubines of

devout followers of the Prophet. Their children would thenautomatically become Moslems and so strengthen the empire

as the janissaries had strengthened it formally. TheseArmenian girls represent a high type of womanhood and theYoung Turks, in their crude intuitive way, recognized that the

mingling of their blood with the Turkish population would exerta eugenic influence on the whole." This is ludicrous, ridiculous

and this nasty book is still in print, it is cited in Congress

and used in "education packs" for high school and college

students.

Sentiments like these expressed about any other ethnic

group would be considered abhorrent yet aimed at the

Turks it seems to be acceptable. It is mystery to me howany sensible person could, in this day and age, read this

rubbish without squirming in his seat with

embarrassment.

It is ironic that Morgenthau, as a Jew, should make these kindsof racial comments and eugenic observations given what was

to follow. This book is a piece of propaganda and it isinteresting that Morgenthau is the source of many articles and

stories he is a principle supplier of information to Brycewhose role during the war was as a producer of propaganda.

Even Bryce's material, emanating as it does from aprofessional, is interesting if you read between the lines; in aletter from an American missionary woman in Van it says thatshe had "thrust" upon her the care of 1000 Turkish refugeesfrom villages that Russo-Armenian volunteers were "cleaning

out"!

Now there is an interesting phrase with more than a littlecontemporary resonance. The term "ethnic clearing" was used

by Serbs to describe the cleaning of Vukovar of CroatCatholics. The interesting thing is that this comment isdropped in in a matter of fact way it must have been

commonplace and it illustrates her prejudices and priorities "While Armenian refugees had been mutually helpful and selfsacrificing, these Moslems showed themselves absolutely

selfish, callous and indifferent to each other's suffering. WhereArmenians had been cheery and hopeful, and had clung to life


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From the CENSUS page

with wonderful vitality, the Moslems, with no faith in God andno hope of a future life, bereft now of hope in this life, died likeflies of prevailing dysentry from lack of stamina and the will to

live."

This is a sample from what is common throughout thesereports. Muslims are brutal, barbaric, selfish and died like

"flies" because they lacked faith in God. Christians are cheerful

in adversity, meek, selfless and sustained by their Christianfaith. It should be obvious to a simpleton that these reports areone sided, biased, carefully selected and presented to cater to

the baser prejudices and prurient fantasies that westernpeople had about the east, in the interest of promoting the war

effort.

These "stories" are accepted today without any reservationbecause they serve an ideology. For example, the Christians ofTrebizond 10,000 of them are put into sailing boats and(methods varying according to which source you read) taken

out to sea, and thrown overboard! All 10,000 of them and all in

an afternoon! Has anyone actually thought about the logisticsof this? Isn't this just a little complicated? Am I the only one

who thinks that Bryce is egging the pudding just a bit?

On Oct 6th 1915 Brycetells the House of Lords that

800,000 Armenians hadbeen murdered in sixmonths! What remarkable

access he had to

information from the interiorof an enemy country! Andyet we have all these

survivors. We are told that1.5-2 million Armenians died

(time frame flexible) andyet the top estimate of the

Armenian population ofOttoman Anatolia at the turn

of the century is just under 1.5 million. If you look at population statistics forthis period you will see that between 1914 and 1922, in Anatolia, about300,000 Greeks died, about 600,000 Armenians and about 2.75 million

Muslims died. If the argument were to be made that in the course of this war

Armenians suffered a catastrophe that was genocidal in its impact thennobody would be arguing. But that is not what is being said. Bryce states that

Armenians are being destroyed as a policy of state that there are orders

to this effect. Well, where are these orders?

The fact remains that there is not a single Ottoman government document in

existence that discusses, plans or commands the execution of these "orders".The definition of genocide has to be made very elastic to make the

accusation credible in this case and there is reliance on propaganda ofdubious provenance and eighty years old and liberal use of repugnant racialstereotypes in lieu of facts. The only fact that is certain is that this war was

genocidal in its impact for all the people of Anatolia. No other theatre of war

experience casualties of this magnitude not just amongst soldiers but civiliansas well. It is complicated by the fact that the distinction between regular and

irregular troops and civilians did not exist.

The Lawyer was a Liar


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"One day Talaat made what was perhaps the mostastonishing request I had ever heard. The 'New York LifeInsurance Company' and the 'Equitable Life of New York'

had for years done considerable business among theArmenians. The extent to which these people insured their

lives was merely another indication of their thrifty habits.

'I wish,' Talaat now said, 'That you would get the AmericanLife Insurance Companies to send us a complete list of

Armenian policy holders. They are practically all dead nowand have left no heirs to collect the money. It of course allescheats to the state. The Government is beneficiary now.

Will you do so?

This was almost too much, and I lost my temper. 'You willget no such list from me,' I said, and I got up and left him.

The above is a passage often pointed to in Armenian friendlysources to show the inhumanity of Talat Pasha; it is from

Henry Morgenthau's book, and only one of the many

fabrications exposed by the meticulous research conductedby Dr. Heath Lowry in "The Story Behind Ambassador

Morgenthau's Story."

Today, lawyers enjoy the reputation of being perhaps thesleaziest of professions in the United States, and the field'spractitioners are often perceived as people with no moral

scruples whatsoever. This was not always the case; there wasa time when those who were experts in the Law were seen as

among the most honorable of citizens. There were enoughexamples of lawyers performing in immoral ways that turned

public opinion drastically against them, and we can now seeHenry Morgenthau must have done his utmost to assist this

tide that went against those of his chosen profession.

(By the way, it also didn't hurt for the unethical Mr.

Morgenthau to drop the name of an insurance firm [Equitable]

he happened to be on the Board of Directors of... a free plug

never hurts, especially in what was sure to be a sensationally

popular book.)

Oh, Henry!


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Children loved Henry Morgenthau

Was Morgenthau as rabid aTurk-hater as he comes across?

When I read such words coming frommissionaries or from religiously-inclined U.S. Consuls such as

George Horton, I can believe theirTurk-hatred truly emanates from their

hearts. However, Morgenthau

appears to be of a different breed.As a lawyer and real estatedeveloper, and as a city person whoprobably wasn't too wrapped up in

religion, I don't see how he could bethis venomous.

Morgenthau's purpose was to vilifyTurks and Germans to induce the

Americans to enter the war. Thus, there was a strong possibilityhe wasn't totally out there as his wild words indicate (although he

certainly must have had enough prejudice within him to have

gone as overboard as he did)... since he got along well with theTurks, according to his letters/diaries, and any of this oozing

contempt seemed rare in those more reliable documents (someletters of which secretary Andonian wrote, so they are not

completely reliable, either.)

This leads me to believe he mostly said such things in order toachieve an end. If such is the case, what must we think of him?

It's one thing when a racist makes offensive statements... not thatit wouldn't be terrible, but while one's lip curls in disgust

somehow one could understand such people; they can't help

themselves, having been mentally deranged. This is why it's hardto hate Armenians in their web sites.

However, if someone slanders to the ugly and vicious extent thatAmbassador Morgenthau allowed himself to do... regardless of

how noble he believed his cause was (similarly, his propagandistco-conspirators on the other side of the ocean, Lord Bryce and

Arnold Toynbee, engaged in outright lies for their Queen, and theholy man Lepsius, doing his bit for Christ)... that makes a person

a particularly low form of humanity, in my book. it's harder toforgive someone who is calculatingly deceitful, and so easily

inclined to murder the reputation of an entire people, becausesuch a person has a choice. Unlike a mentally deranged racist,

such a person can help himself. I believe this lawyer, HenryMorgenthau, was in full command of his faculties.

It's no wonder that George Schreiner was so absolutely disgustedwith Morgenthau's lack of ethics in the December 11,1918 letterhe wrote... where he declared, "You saw litt le of the cruelty you

fasten upon the Turks."

"Apart from that he (Enver Pasha) was in no respect what youpicture him. Of course, if we are to take it for granted that we of

the West are saints, then the Turk is any good. You will agree withme, no doubt, that the Turks count among the few gentlemen stillin existence."

He then correctly declares something all Armenians and their


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Constantinople Cop: Bedri Bey

supporters should bear in mind:

"Ultimately truth will prevail."

Like the movie MIDNIGHT EXPRESS where there was noindication of "good" in the Turkish people, and the film wasincredibly successful in turning minds against the Turks,

Morgenthau's extremely popular book added in a significant waythe anti-Turkish hysteria already well in place. The book

effectively contributed (perhaps almost as much as that otherhoax-book, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh) to negative

perceptions against Turkey that Greeks and Armenians are wellaware of how to exploit. This is why they can keep conning

Westerners today, as they know they have their well-established,solid foundation of hate and ignorance to work from. This is why a

Peter Balakian (among others) can con famous authors likeNorman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike and Arthur Miller,

who already have their deep-rooted prejudices and automaticallyaccept the anti-Turkish drivel they are told; and they don't think

twice about joining the bandwagon to smear a professor like

Heath Lowry because they can't believe any professor in his rightmind can deviate from the version of events they prefer to believe,

without being a tool of the Turks. Meanwhile, truly partialhistorians like Richard Hovannisian teach at universities fundedby wealthy Armenian organizations, and these author-hypocrites

have no problem with that.

Dr. Lowry winds up his excellently-researched The Story BehindAmbassador Morgenthau's Story by telling us:

One can not help but wonder how many of the young Armenianswho turned to the terrorist assassinations of Turkish officials (and

bystanders) in tl1e 1970's and early 1980's, were influenced byreading Ambassador Morgenthau's Story?

Ambassador Morgenthau committed a great wrong, therepercussions of which can still be felt today. I'd like to bring up

two other points from his book.

Bedri Bey, the police prefect, is in aweof the American and always snaps to

attention when Morgenthau is around.(He is one of those primitive people,after all... and Morgenthau is just so

superior.) As a Turk, of course, BedriBey salivates to cause damage to

defenseless people, but the moral,upstanding Morgenthau is there to foilhis plans. The two engage in a kind ofpower play, where Bedri Bey usually

winds up as the loser.

At one point, the Ambassadormanipulates the mentally sluggish Turk

by threatening:

"You are very foolish to try to play such tricks on us," I said. "Don't

you know that I am going to write a book? If you go on behavingthis way, I shall put you in as the villain."

Bedri Bey, afraid, magically comes to his senses. Turks are


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cowards, after all.

Unrelated to Bedri Bey, Morgenthau says, elsewhere in hisghostwritten book:

I still attempted to persuade Talaat that the treatment of theArmenians was destroying Turkey in the eyes of the world, and

that his country would never be able to recover from this infamy.

Now here is the great irony. It hasn't come true yet, but one day,it inevitably will. It inevitably will, because as George Schreiner

said, "Ultimately truth will prevail."

Ambassador Morgenthau's record of his life will one day blow upin his posthumous face, and his reputation will forever be

besmirched... just as he has been destroying the reputation of

the Turks these many years with his dishonesty and lies... and heis the one who will never be able to recover from his infamy.

Far from Bedri Bey's being the villain of his book, Ambassador

Morgenthau will one day emerge as the villain of his book.

This is only a matter of time.

ADDITIONAL READING

Another reason for Mr. Morgenthau's ways involved hiscommitment to Zionism and the creation of a Jewish state:

"The Burning Tigris" Critique; Chapter 17 on HenryMorgenthau

Also:

Exposing the Lies of "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story"

Ambassador Morgenthau "Proves" There was No

Genocide

Morgenthau the Hypocrite

Henry Morgenthau III: A Chip Off the Old Blockhead


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