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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...