Category: History - European

Armenia and the War

"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak: They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think: They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."

Chapters

1. Part 1

"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak: They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they...

2. Part 2

The first general discussion of the terms of peace has coincided with the publication, as a Blue-book, of Lord Bryce's comprehensive documentary evidence on the attempt of the T...

3. Part 3

That is the true explanation of the amazing fact that so many--though not all--British officers and soldiers have written or spoken of the Turk as a clean-fighter. It is well-kn...

4. Part 4

As I write, two important references to the future of Armenia have appeared in the Press. One in the _Manchester Guardian_--that old and constant champion of wronged and sufferi...

5. Part 5

The volunteer force was not large, but it was a mobile force well adapted to the semi-guerilla kind of warfare carried on in Armenia, and the men knew the country. They seem to...

6. Part 6

Apart from giving the reader a general idea of the atrocities themselves, I have selected and grouped the extracts with the object of calling attention to the incidental or subs...

7. Part 7

"A crowd of Turkish women and children follow the police about like a lot of vultures, and seize anything they can lay their hands on, and when the more valuable things are carr...

8. Part 8

There is no brighter page in the glorious history of the British Empire than the records of the liberties that conduce to the contentment and happiness of peoples--freedom of th...

9. Part 9

It was a short-lived joy. The Congress of Berlin assembled soon after, tore up the Treaty of San Stefano which had given us the blessing of effective Russian protection, compell...

10. Part 10

To the Armenian people it is a final pledge that the reparation to be demanded and obtained for them, in the terms of peace will be commensurate, in full measure, with the magni...