I wonder if four hundred million Christians, in full control of all the governments of Europe and America, are again going to condone these offenses by the Turkish Government! Will they, like Germany, take the bloody hand of the Turk, forgive him and decorate him, as Kaiser Wilhelm has done, with the highest orders? Will the outrageous terrorizing--the cruel torturing--the driving of women into the harems--the debauchery of innocent girls--the sale of many of them at eighty cents each--the murdering of hundreds of thousands and the deportation to and starvation in the desert of other hundreds of thousands--the destruction of hundreds of villages and cities--will the wilful execution of this whole devilish scheme to annihilate the Armenian, Greek, and Syrian Christians of Turkey--will all this go unpunished? Will the Turks be permitted, aye, even encouraged by our cowardice in not striking back, to continue to treat all Christians in their power as “unbelieving dogs”? Or will definite steps be promptly taken to rescue permanently the remnants of these fine, old, civilized, Christian peoples from the fangs of the Turk? That was a tragic story, but it had its lighter phase. Following a common custom, the editors of the _Red Cross Magazine_ printed on the front cover of their publication my name and the title of the article. The juxtaposition was unfortunate and startling: “_Henry Morgenthau--The Greatest Horror in History!_” “That’s pretty rough,” wrote the New York _Sun_. “We always realized fully that the former Ambassador to Turkey was not a handsome man, but the _Red Cross Magazine_ really has gone too far.” The Jewish question interested me quite as deeply, and on December 12, 1917, I published in the New York _Times_ a carefully considered statement. This was the fruit of my thirty months’ experience with the problem of the Jews in Turkey and of my observations at first hand of their status and projects in Palestine, and was in line with my purpose to do more than alleviate the present sufferings of the Jews. Because this statement is important in its bearing upon my chapter on Zionism, I am reproducing it here in full. As my present opinion on Zionism is the outgrowth of years of sympathetic reflection, continuous observation, and conscientious personal study of the facts, I should like to emphasize the date of this publication, and thus indicate the progress of my views toward their settled conviction regarding Zionism: _To the Editor of the New York_ Times: