“If you condemn the Sultan for that, you astonish me. The Armenians? Bah! They ought to be exterminated _en masse_, and the Sultan did an excellent piece of work when he got rid of them. I have no use for them. Besides,’ he continued, ‘can’t you see that a free Armenia would be a serious obstacle to Russian expansion and to our advance to the south and into Persia? Abdul Hamid has proved himself a very valuable ally of Russia. He is the best Ambassador at Constantinople that we’ve ever had.”--Note to 2nd printing. [10] This statement is corroborated by Dr. George Washburn in his account of the Constantinople Massacre: “But the Concert of Europe did nothing. It accepted the situation. The Emperor of Germany went further. He sent a special embassy to present to the Sultan a portrait of his family as a token of his esteem.”--“Fifty Years in Constantinople,” George Washburn. (Note to 2nd printing.) [11] Since these lines were written later accounts show that over a hundred thousand have been precipitated into homelessness and destitution, and this misery is growing greater every day.--Note to 2nd printing. [12] “Transcaucasia and Ararat: Twenty Years of the Armenian Question,” James Bryce.--Note to 2nd printing. [13] “The Strenuous Life: Expansion and Peace,” Theodore Roosevelt.--Note to 2nd printing. [14] Edmund Burke--Speech in Parliament in opposition to Mr. Pitt, 1791.--Note to 2nd printing. [15] Nakhitchvan--Invaded and seized by the Persian Monarch Shah Abbas in 1603. Taken from Persia by Russia in 1827. [16] Erivan--Invaded and seized by the Persian monarch Shah Abbas in 1603. Taken from Persia by Russia 1827. [17] The Hittites flourished in the sixteenth and fifteenth centuries B.C. King Aram completed his conquest of Cappadocia in B.C. 1796.