Edited sentence: " However, in September he recorded in his private diary that he heard from Zenop Bezjian, Vekil [representative] of Armenian Protestants, that half a million Armenians were displaced and presumably alive, and the ones "at Zor were fairly well satisfied; that they have already settled down to business and are earning their livings.13), "barbarous" (p.147), "brutal" (p.149), "ragged and unkempt" (p.276), and "parasites" (p.Andonian and Arshag K.By contrast, he cites "The Armenians are known for their industry, their intelligence, and their decent and orderly lives.For example, on July 16, 1915, Morgenthau cabled the Department of State with his dispatch that "a campaign of race extermination is in progress.On the other hand, there are several indications demonstrating the ambassador's deviation from reality.Schmavonian] permission to write some of his letters) portrayed the Turks as less-than-human creatures: "inarticulate, ignorant, and poverty-ridden slaves" (p.Some examples of this bias within his writing (Morgenthau is on record for having given his Armenian assistants [Hagop S.The Ambassador also wrote: "The descendants of Osman hardly resemble any people I have ever known.They are so superior to the Turks intellectually and morally.They do not hate, they do not love; they have no lasting animosities or affections.They only fear" (p