The whole German press--as stated by the author of the Memorandum--reproduced an interview with Dr. Rifaat, a member of the Committee of Union and Progress, originally published in a Danish paper, in the course of which the interviewed politician spoke of "a conspiracy embracing the whole Armenian population residing in Turkey, threatening the very existence of the country and intended to play Constantinople into the hands of the Allies." He further stated that the plot was discovered before it had ripened, that many of the conspirators, including the Arabian Chief Abd-ul-Kerim, had been arrested and punished, and that 21 of the adherents of the latter were hanged. The author of the Memorandum makes the following comment on this statement: "If Dr. Rifaat knows anything of an Arabian conspiracy, it is impossible for us to verify this finding. In any case an 'Arabian' conspiracy is not an 'Armenian' conspiracy. But the number of the 21 conspirators hanged and the other contents of the 'interview' lead inevitably to the conclusion that Dr. Rifaat did intentionally mislead public opinion, by representing the plot of the Turkish opposition which had already been discovered before the war, [2] and which aimed at the fall of the present government and the murder of Talaat Bey and other Young Turk leaders, as 'a conspiracy embracing the whole Armenian population residing in Turkey.'" The interview with Dr. Rifaat is also one of the trump-cards played in a pamphlet published in Berlin under the title of "The Armenian Question" by C. A. Bratter, a person describing himself as "a Citizen of a neutral State and a German Journalist." This pamphlet (which was written in order to counteract the influence of an appeal in favour of the Armenians over the signatures of a number of distinguished Swiss residents) is minutely analyzed by the author of the Memorandum, together with its pretended sources of information; and he demonstrates irrefutably its utter untrustworthiness as well as the bad faith of its writer. He significantly adds: "How forgetful and how uncritical must any reader be to whom it is possible to present such lies." [3] Being ourselves in a position of greater freedom, we can say that this forgetfulness and this want of critical power are not surprising in the German public, having regard to the fact that their Government is in close alliance with the perpetrators of the crimes which Bratter and other persons of the same mental and moral calibre try to explain away or justify, and which could and would have been prevented long ago if that Government had not disregarded the elementary dictates of humanity.