It Is found that the original responsibility rests with the Ottoman Government at Constantinople. whose policy was actively seconded by the members of the committee of union and progress In the Provinces. And in view of the fact that the representations of the Austrian ambassador vvith the Porte were effectual in procuring a partial measure of exemption for the Armenian Catholics. we are led to surmise that the unspeakable horrors which this volume records might have been mitigated if not wholly checked had active and energetic remonstrances been from the first moment addressed to the Ottoman Government by the two powers who had acquired a predominant Influence in Constantinople. The evidence. on the contrary. tends to suggest that these two powers were in a general way favorable to the policy of deportation of the Armenians. Permit me to add. Mr. President. that since the war further facts have come to light which. prove that German diplomatic representatives and German military leaders who were with the Turkish arlmies not only connived at these massacres and deportations but encouraged them. Hon. Moorfleld Storey. in a letter to Lord Bryce. after reviewing the records submitted. declares that they establishbeyond any reasonable doubt the deliberate purpose of the Turkish authorities practically to exterminate the Armenians. and their responsibility for the hideous atrocities which have been perpetrated upon that unhappy people.
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