Armenia and the War

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ARMENIA AND THE WAR

AN ARMENIAN'S POINT OF VIEW WITH AN APPEAL TO BRITAIN AND THE COMING PEACE CONFERENCE

A. P. HACOBIAN

WITH A PREFACE BY THE RT. HON.

VISCOUNT BRYCE, O.M.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXVII

"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak: They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think: They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." Lowell.

"To serve Armenia is to serve civilization."

W. E. GLADSTONE.

"We have put our money on the wrong horse."[1]

THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.

" ... a Government incurably barbarous and corrupt."

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.

" ... the Ottoman Empire ... decidedly foreign to Western civilization."

ALLIES' NOTE TO PRESIDENT WILSON, January 11, 1917.

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · After the massacres of 1895-1896, Lord Salisbury, who had himself taken a prominent part in the consummation of the Treaty of Berlin and the