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Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
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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." 
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From an Armenian web site is thefollowing insight into the life ofAmbassador Morgenthau... written byANI's Dr. Rouben Paul Adalian:Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946) wasUnited States ambassador to theOttoman Empire during the ArmenianGenocide. A naturalized American from aGerman Jewish family, Morgenthau wasa successful lawyer active in DemocraticParty politics. With the election ofPresident Woodrow Wilson, he wasappointed United States Ambassador tothe Sublime Porte in 1913. InConstantinople he established personalcontact with the Young Turk leaders ofthe Ottoman Empire, especially theMinister of the Interior, Talaat, withwhom he unsuccessfully intervened toalleviate 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 ofalarming reports detailing the extent of the measures taken against theArmenians. Despite the difficulties of communication during the war, OscarH. Heizer in Trebizond, Leslie A. Davis in Mamuret-el-Aziz, or Harput(Kharpert in Armenian), and especially Jesse B. Jackson in Aleppo regularlyposted the Embassy with their own eyewitness accounts of the treatment ofthe Armenians. On June 5, 1915,Jacksonshared his views about thepersecutions 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 ofState onJuly 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 survivingArmenians. In 1918 he published
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story 
, amemoir 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 amconfident 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 FranklinDelano Roosevelt.
Here is an example of the Ambassador's Thinking
The IndependentFebruary 28, 1920
Shall Armenia Perish?
By Henry MorgenthauFormer Ambassador to Turkey, and NationalVice-Chairman of Near East Relief Two hundred and fifty thousand Christian Armenian women enslaved inTurkish harems call to the people of America for liberation! One hundredthousand women already rescued by Near East Relief agents fromharems will perish unless support from America is continued! Twohundred and fifty thousand children, orphaned by the unspeakable Turks,are calling in the only English they know, "Bread, Uncle Sam." Onemillion two hundred thousand destitute, homeless, clotheless adults look to the giant in the West for the succor that will keep them fromannihilation. What shall our answer be?If they were good enough to fight and die for us when we needed theirhelp so sorely, are they not good enough to be given some crumbs fromour plenty?Since the beginning of the war, the Turkish Armenians have been largelyrefugees. A simple, agricultural people, they have been exiled from theirfarms and deprived of all opportunity to support themselves. Now, morethan a year after the armistice, they are still living the life of nomads,able to continue alive only by virtue of American philanthropy. If everunmerited suffering called for succor the plight of the Armenians shouldbe heeded now. A few months more and it may be relief will come toolate for those myriads whom only we can save.Let the American slogan now become-Serve Armenians for a little whilelonger 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, thatTurkey has repented and can do notfurther harm, is without foundation.The group that led Turkey into thewar on the side of Germany is now inthe saddle. The Turk has not beendisarmed and these leaders are nowaiding the Tartars. Kurds andBolshevists are urging them on to killand rob the surviving Armenians atevery opportunity. The deportationsand massacres during the war werenot spontaneous uprisings of unorganized mobs, but were theworking out of a well-plotted plan of wholesale extermination in whichregular Turkish officers and troopstook part as if in a campaign againstan 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 beassembled in the marketplace. Then the able-bodied men would bemarched off and killed by being shot or clubbed in cold blood at somespot which did not necessitate the trouble of burial.Next the women would be sorted out. Agents of the Turk officers pickedthe youngest and fairest for their masters' harems. Next the civil officialshad their pick, and then the remainder either were sold for one medjidi-asilver coin valued at about 80 cents-or were driven forth to be seized bythe 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 todeath 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 tocontinue conditions that threaten and permit their repetition, she is partyto 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 thrugovernmental action or protection under the League of Nations theymust 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 women enslaved in Turkish harems ," 
indeed! So ordinary Turks hadharems... 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 sexualpartners. (The harem, by the way, was a Byzantine tradition.)
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