A brief review of that history will reveal that. in 1915. the distinguished U.S. Ambassador of the Ottoman Empire. Henry Morgenthau. acting on instructions from the Secretaries of State William Jennings Bryan and Robert Lansing. organized and led protests by all nations. among them Turkeys allies. over what Ambassadop Morgenthau referred to as Turkeys program of "race extermination." Ambassador Morgenthau telegrammed the following to the Secretary of State on July 16. 1915: Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion. Ambassador Morgenthau wrote the following in his book. "Ambassador Morgenthaus Story": When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race. they understood this well and in their conversations with me. they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.
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