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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

BY

A. P. HACOBIAN

WITH A PREFACE BY THE RT. HON.

VISCOUNT BRYCE, O.M.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
MCMXVII

[Pg v]"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.

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"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 Westerncivilization."

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

FOOTNOTE:

[1] After the massacres of 1895-1896, Lord Salisbury, who hadhimself taken a prominent part in the consummation of the Treaty ofBerlin and the Cyprus Convention, frankly admitted the failure of thepolicy which gave birth to these treaties, and the futility of relyingupon Turkish promises.

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The end of the war will leave Great Britain and her Allies the practicalarbiters of the destinies of Europe and the Near East. The predominantpart played in the prosecution of the war by Great Britain and theBritish Empire will entitle them to an equally decisive voice in thecouncils of the Peace Conference. That proud position carries with it asupreme privilege as well as a heavy moral responsibility. That thevoice and weight of Britain and

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