These pretexts have been carefully examined by Viscount Bryce in his painstaking and carefully prepared volume of nearly 700 pages. which was printed in 1916 under the title "The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. 191516." Let me add at this point that this monumental work demonstrates beyond the possibility of a doubt that the Turkish Governiment deliberately planned the destruction of all Armenians within the boundaries of the Turkish Empire. The accounts of the frightful atrocities perpetrated by the Turks in the execution of this plan caused a feeling of horror throughout the world. Many in the United States and in Europe could not credit the apparently authentic accounts of the butcheries and premeditated deportations which were being carried out under direction of the Turkish Government. Viscount Bryce undertook to sift the evidence and to assemble documents and facts bearing upon this horrible crime committed by the Turkish Government. He gathered more than 140 documents. and a vast anount of indisputable evidence. which he presented to Lord Grey. then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Great Britain.
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