Military leaders and statesmen of the allied nations all testify to the valorous conduct of the Armenian and Syrian soldiers and to their material contributions to the allied victory. For centuries the appeals of the Christian minorities within the Turkish Empire for succor and support have occasionally aroused the civilized world. and. as I have indicated. upon a number of occasions demands were nmde of the Turkish Government that its massacres and persecutions of the ionMoslem populations should cease. During the war. and particularly after it became known that Turkey had deported and murdered more than a million Armenians. the allied and associated nations. including the United States. demanded that when the war was over the remnants of the Armenian race should be freed from the tyranny of Turkey and that there should be assigned to them a portion of their former kingdom. within which they might establish a government of their own choice. LloydGeorge stated in the House of Commons thatrecognition of the separate claims of Armenia shall constitute one of the aims of Great BritainAnd in July. 1918. Mr.
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