The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-07

know the Armenians. / also know that
both Armeuians and Turks can not live
together in his country. One of these
races has got to go. And l don't blame
the Turks for what they are doing to
the Armenians. l think that they are
entirely justified. The weaker nation
must succumb. The Armenians desire
to dismember Turkey; they are against
the Turks and the Germans in this war,
and they therefore have no right to ex-
list here. / also think that W~angenheim
went altogether too far in making a
R tSfs.% at least l would not have done
ments, but Human went on abusing
the Armenian people and a~bsolving the
Turks from all blame.
1T is a matter Of safety" he replied;
the Turks have got to protect them
selves, and from this point Of view,
they are entirely justified in what they
are doing. Why, we found 1000 guns at
Kadikeuy which belonged to the Ar
menians. At first Enver wanted to
treat the Armenians with the utmost
moderation, and four months ago he
insisted that they be given another OPP
portunity to demonstrate their loyalty,
But after what they did at Van, he had
to yield to the army, who had been in
sisting all along that they should pro-
tect their rear. The committee decided
upon the deportation and Enver reluct-
antly agreed. All Armenians are work
ing for the destruction of Turkeys pow
Grand the only thing to do is to deport
them. Enver Is really a very kind
hearted man; he is incapable personally
Of hurting a fly! But when it comes
to defending an idea in which he be-
lleVes he will do it fearlessly and reck-
iessly. Moreover, the Young Turks
have to get rid Of the Armenians merely
as a matter of self-protection. The
committee is strong only in CONSTANT
nople and a few other large cities
Everywhere else the people are strongly
old Turk And these old Turks are all
fanatics. These old Turks are not in
FAVOR OF the present government, and SO
the committee has To 10 everything in
It's to protect itself. But
don't think that any harm will come tc
other Christians. Any Turk can easily
pick out three Armenians among a
thousand Turks,"
Human was not the only important
German who expressed this latter senti.
ment. limitations began to reach me
from many sources thatamy "meddling'
in behalf of the Armenians was max
ing me more and more unpopular in
German officialdom. One day in DC.
tober Neurath, the German conseiller
called and showed me a telegram which
he had just received from the German
foreign office. This contained the in.
formation that Lord Crew and LORD
Cromer had spoken on the Armenians
In the house of lords, had laid the re-
sponsibility for the massacres upon the
Germans, and had declared that they
had received their information from ar
American witDeSs. This telegram also
referred to an article in the Westminster
! GaZette,s which said that the German
| pOnGnIg at pnTtain p1nnaG ho1 tn.tir,tad
and even led the attacks, and particu.
larry mentioned ReSler of Aleppo. Neu.
rath said that his government had di.
rected him to obtain a denial of these
charges from the American ambassador
at Constantinople. | refused to make
such a denial, saying that | did not fee
called upon to decide officially whether
Turkey or Germany was to blame fol
| these crimes.
Yet everywhere in diplomatic circle.
there seemed to be a conviction that
the American ambassador was response,
BILE for the wide publicity which the
Armenian massacres were receiving If
Europe and the United States. hav,
no hesitation in saying that they wer,
right about this. In December my son
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., paid a visit Il
the Gallipoll peninsula, where he was
entertained by Gen. Liman Won Sander,
and other German officers. He haC
TIC hlS SICppCu lllO ItTlIldH HtduQudT
ters when a general came up to hin
n said:
Those are very interesting articles
on the Armenian question which you
father Is writing in the American news
papers"
MY father has been writing no arti
cles," my son replied.
oh" said the officer, lust becaus
his name isn't signed to them doesn'
mean that he is not writing them"
Van Sanders also spoke on this sub
ject.
Your father is making a great mis-
take" he said, giving out the fact
about what the Turks are doing to tn
Armenians. That really is not his bust
ness.
AS hints of this kind made no i'm
preston on me, the Germans evidentl,
decided to resort to threats. In tn
early autumn. a DR.. Nossig arrived IL
Co%nstantinople from Berlin. DR.. Nossi,
was a German Jew, and came to Tur
key evidently to work against the Zion
lists. After he had talked with me TO
a few minutes, describing his Jewisl
activities, / soon discovered that he wa
a German political agent. He came +
was somewhat rambling, the purpose o
the call apparently being to make m.
acquaintance and ~insinuate himself int
my good graceS. The second time, af
ter d~iscoursing vaguely or several top
les. he came directly to the point. H
drew his chair closely up to me an
began to talk in the most friendly an,
confidential tanner.
MIR. Ambassador he said, I'VE ar
both Jews and | want to s6eak to 70,
as one Jew to another. l hope you vii
not be offended If l presume upon thi
to give you a little advice. You ar,
very active in the interest of the Ar
menians and l do not think you realiz,
how very unpopular you are becoming
for this reason with the authorize