The Armenian allegations related to the relocation of Armenians during the beginning of First World War, mainly built on the book titled “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story” written by so-called Mr. Henry Morgenthau Sr. .
Actually the book was written by the Pulitzer Prize winner of the era Mr. Burton J. Hendrick. He is the ghost writer of this doubtful book and received a very huge lump sum of money from Mr. Morgenthau for his very professional, devoted and rapacious services.
The fact is that Ambassador Morgenthau officiated as an US Ambassador in Istanbul from late 1913 to early 1916 but never travelled eastwards on the overland. His book is totally based on hearings and makeup stories created by the two Armenian US Embassy employees. No information in this book is based on any official document released by any neighboring country to the Ottoman Empire or even the US Senate or Congress.
When this book is checked against Mr. Morgenthau's Diary, it can be clearly observed by anybody that it includes made up stories rather than reflecting the true life memories.
This paper, based on information excerpted from the non Turkish or non Ottoman formal documents and/or official releases, tries the bring into life what happened actually during this era.
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Biography of T. W. Wilson, http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/woodrowwilson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/woodrowwilson
A Fabricated Genocide, http://armeniangenocidelies.com/category/lies-more-lies/
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Abbreviations Used in Footnotes.
FDR : FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT LIBRARY, HYDE PARK, NEW YORK
LC: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D.C. - MANUSCRIPT DIVISION
LC: PHM- Reel No.6 ((Footnote no.26 in H. W. Lowry's above mentioned book)
Footnote 43 of Lowry, Heath W., The Story Behind Ambassador Morgenthau's Story. ebook Chap2, p.12
The foot note 43 is based on oral history notes, declared by H. W. Lowry as follows:
"I am indebted to Mr. Ronald J. Grele, Director of the’Oral History Research Office’ at Columbia University’s Butler Library, for a copy of the 62 page Nevins interview entitled: ‘The Reminiscences of Burton j. Hendrick.’ The passage quoted above is taken from pages 31—32 of this interview, and is a summary of Hendrick’s comments. In addition to the Hendrick materials discussed earlier in what I have termed the Hendrick/Rusnak Collection, and the Nevins interview, there are also 75 Hendrick letters in the archives of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City. I am informed by Ms. Nancy Johnson, the ‘AAAL’ Librarian, that this material consists primarily of letters relating to Hendrick’s membership in the ‘AAAL,’ an organization to which he was elected in 1923, and of which he remained a member until his death in 1949."
Letter from Morgenthau to him dated July 5, 1918
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