[Illustration: HENRY MORGENTHAU American Ambassador at Constantinople from 1913 to 1916] AMBASSADOR MORGENTHAU’S STORY BY HENRY MORGENTHAU _Formerly American Ambassador to Turkey_ [Illustration: colophon] ILLUSTRATED GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN TO WOODROW WILSON THE EXPONENT IN AMERICA OF THE ENLIGHTENED PUBLIC OPINION OF THE WORLD, WHICH HAS DECREED THAT THE RIGHTS OF SMALL NATIONS SHALL BE RESPECTED AND THAT SUCH CRIMES AS ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOK SHALL NEVER AGAIN DARKEN THE PAGES OF HISTORY PREFACE By this time the American people have probably become convinced that the Germans deliberately planned the conquest of the world. Yet they hesitate to convict on circumstantial evidence and for this reason all eye witnesses to this, the greatest crime in modern history, should volunteer their testimony. I have therefore laid aside any scruples I had as to the propriety of disclosing to my fellow countrymen the facts which I learned while representing them in Turkey. I acquired this knowledge as the servant of the American people, and it is their property as much as it is mine. I greatly regret that I have been obliged to omit an account of the splendid activities of the American Missionary and Educational Institutions in Turkey, but to do justice to this subject would require a book by itself. I have had to omit the story of the Jews in Turkey for the same reasons. My thanks are due to my friend, Mr. Burton J. Hendrick, for the invaluable assistance he has rendered in the preparation of the book. HENRY MORGENTHAU. October, 1918. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. A German superman at Constantinople 3 II. The “Boss System” in the Ottoman Empire and how it proved useful to Germany 20 III. “The personal representative of the Kaiser.” Wangenheim opposes the sale of American warships to Greece 41 IV. Germany mobilizes the Turkish army 61 V. Wangenheim smuggles the _Goeben_ and the _Breslau_ through the Dardanelles 68