Chapter II: Foreword: 5

INTRODUCTORY 11

CHAPTER I

IN APRIL, 1915, THE OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT
BEGAN TO PUT INTO EXECUTION
THROUGHOUT TURKEY A SYSTEMATIC
AND CAREFULLY-PREPARED PLAN TO
EXTERMINATE THE ARMENIAN RACE.
IN SIX MONTHS NEARLY A MILLION
ARMENIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED. THE
NUMBER OF THE VICTIMS AND THE
MANNER OF THEIR DESTRUCTION ARE
WITHOUT PARALLEL IN MODERN HISTORY 17

CHAPTER II

THE ARMENIANS, AS A RACE, HAVE NEVER
BEEN, AND ARE NOT, A MENACE TO THE
SECURITY OF TURKEY. THEY ARE
BLAMELESS OF THE CHARGE OF DISLOYALTY,
WHICH HAS BEEN THE EXCUSE
FOR THEIR MASSACRE AND DEPORTATION 30

CHAPTER III

THE PRESERVATION OF THE ARMENIAN
ELEMENT IS ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE
TO THE WELL-BEING AND PROSPERITY
OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. IT
HAS BEEN PROVED THROUGH CENTURIES
THAT CHRISTIANS AND MOSLEMS ARE
ABLE TO LIVE IN PEACE AND AMITY
IN TURKEY, WHICH IS EQUALLY THE
COUNTRY OF BOTH 43

CHAPTER IV

THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT COULD HAVE
PREVENTED THIS EFFORT AT EXTERMINATING
THE ARMENIAN RACE, BUT
HAS CHOSEN NOT TO DO SO. THERE IS
GRAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THE GERMAN
GOVERNMENT HAS WELCOMED, IF
NOT ENCOURAGED, THE DISAPPEARANCE
OF THE ARMENIANS FROM ASIA
MINOR, FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF
GERMAN POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL
DESIGNS ON THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 54