And although there are some revisionist efforts now to. in effect. rewrite the history as though this tragic massacre never occurred. what happened Is clear from eyewitness accounts. from contemporaneous newspaper accounts at the time. from reports of diplomats on the scene. not only American diplomats. not only Ambassador Morgenthau who later. of course. became a very distinguished Secretary of the Treasury and who wrote at the time when it began in 1915: I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres of persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915. Winston Churchill wrote in 1929: In 1915. the Turkish Government began and carried out the Infamous general massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. and the clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete of such an act on a scale so great as could be. Mr. President. this question was alluded to earlier: Why have this remembrance?
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