CONTENTS
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| I. | ARMENIA AS A WAR ISSUE—GREATEST SUFFERERFROM TURKO-PRUSSIAN "FRIGHTFULNESS"—EFFECT ON AMERICAN OPINION | [1] |
| II. | ARMENIA AND REPARATION—ARMENIA'S MARTYRDOM—CONDEMNATIONAND DEMAND FOR REPARATION INADEQUATELY EXPRESSED | [10] |
| III. | "THE GENTLE AND CLEAN-FIGHTING TURK" | [22] |
| IV. | ANGLO-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP A VITAL NECESSITYFOR PEACE AND PROGRESS IN ASIA—MOSLEMSAND TURKISH RULE—ARMENIANS PROGRESSIVE AND DEMOCRATIC BY TEMPERAMENT | [40] |
| V. | ARMENIA AS A PEACE PROBLEM—VIEWS OF THE"MANCHESTER GUARDIAN" AND THE "SPECTATOR"—CAN ARMENIANS STAND ALONE AMONGTHE KURDS?—AMERICAN OPINION AND THE FUTURE OF ARMENIA | [50] |
| VI. | ARMENIA'S SERVICES IN THE WAR | [66] |
| VII. | ARMENIA THE BATTLE-GROUND OF ASIA MINOR AND VICTIM OF CONTENDING EMPIRES | [81] |
| VIII. | THE BLUE-BOOK—THE EPIC OF ARMENIA'S MARTYRDOM,THE REVELATION OF HER SPIRIT ANDCHARACTER—"TRUTH" ON THE ARMENIANS: A DIGRESSION | [94] |
| IX. | EXTRACTS FROM THE BLUE BOOK | [114] |
| X. | GREAT BRITAIN AND ARMENIA—THE LATE DUKEOF ARGYLL'S VIEWS—AN APPEAL TO BRITAIN | [140] |
| XI. | AN APPEAL TO THE COMING PEACE CONFERENCE | [160] |
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| POSTSCRIPT | [181] | |
| APPENDIX | [189] | |
ARMENIA AND THE WAR
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ARMENIA AS A WAR ISSUE—GREATEST SUFFERER FROM TURKO-PRUSSIAN "FRIGHTFULNESS"—EFFECT ON AMERICAN OPINION
The first official advance for peace made by Germany and her Allies, although couched in defiant and menacing terms, was nevertheless an unmistakable signal of distress, and has brought the world within measurable distance of that just and durable peace which the Allies have set out to achieve. The prospect of approaching peace has set on foot a general reiteration of the issues at stake, and consideration of the terms and problems of peace. Public attention in this country will naturally be occupied, in the first place, with the momentous issues and interests of the United Kingdom, the British Empire and her Allies raised by the war and to be settled and secured by the impending peace. It will therefore, I hope, not be considered amiss or premature for a member of one of those small and oppressed peoples engulfed in the vortex of the war who look to Great Britain and her Allies for deliverance, reparation and the security of their future liberty, to put before the British public his views, as well as facts and arguments that may be of some service in enabling it to form a just estimate of the claims and merits of one of the smaller problems which run the risk of not receiving a full hearing at the Peace Conference, in the presence of a multitude of larger and more important questions.
The item in the Allied peace terms stated in their reply to President Wilson's note, "the setting free of the populations subject to the bloody tyranny of the Turks," is the bearer to Armenians of a message of comfort and hope. It heralds the dawn of a new day that will mark the end of the long and hideous nightmare of Turkish tyranny.