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    AMERICAN PROFESSOR: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS BRITISH PROPAGANDA

    NTV MSNBC, Turkey
    March 20 2006

    Renown U.S. historian and expert on Ottoman affairs, Professor Justin
    McCarthy said allegations of Armenian genocide are British propaganda.

    Professor Justin McCarthy, speaking at a conference in London,
    said that a source known as the "Blue Book" chosen by Armenians to
    prove their claims of genocide is one of the products of British war
    propaganda bureau's efforts of misinformation during first world war.

    The Blue Book written by Viscount Bryce and Arnold Toynbee has been
    used as proof that Armenians and the victims of the Jewish Holocaust
    suffered the same fate in history. This book has been said to be a
    product of British intelligence designed to promote and promulgate
    lies during World War I. Britain had set up the war propaganda
    bureau at Wellington House for the sole purpose of promoting lies and
    misinformation on Germany and the Ottoman Empire. The British were
    in full co-operation with American missionaries in Anatolia and the
    American Embassy in Istanbul conjured a so called Armenian genocide
    based on gossip, hear-say and erroneous information.

    The real purpose behind this exercise was to create and strengthen
    an image in the minds of British military officers that the Turk were
    evil, horrible and untrustworthy McCarthy adds.

    PROFESSOR JUSTIN MCCARTHY...

    HISTORIAN AND EXPERT ON OTTOMAN AFFAIRS

    All documents at the Wellington House where the British carried out
    their propaganda were destroyed when the war ended. One document that
    survived, however, was the Blue Book (it is documented that many more
    of these books were published and copied for other countries). This
    book is currently being used around the world as a legal document on
    the genocide.

    AMERICAN HISTORIAN PROVES THE FACTS

    The American historian and expert on Ottoman affairs was a recent
    speaker at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. He
    commented on a few of the stomach churning activities of the British
    during the first world war. He stated, When the war began, a secret
    propaganda unit was set up at Wellington House, London (on September
    2, 1914). This units sole aim was to provide support for Britain,
    smear Britains enemies, obtain support for the British view through
    the use of Americans, and to keep British morale high during the war.

    This unit was headed by Charles Masterman a Liberal m.p. He was a
    close friend of Lloyd George. There also was an American intellectual
    named Viscount Bryce working in this bureau who had many influential
    friends in the U.S. Arnold Toynbee, young historian, meanwhile was
    one of Bryces close friends at the time.

    SEVEN MILLION DOCUMENTS

    At the end of the war all documents and records of work at the war
    propaganda bureau were destroyed, and its existence was only admitted
    in 1935. However, the sources of the propaganda bureau were discovered
    due to one records book surviving until present day.

    Publications prepared in this bureau and the existence of seven
    million documents which were very efficiently sent to the United States
    after the war were also exposed. Many famous authors of the time as
    Arnold Bennett and John Buchan were also employed by the Wellington
    House, where they published brochures, books and statements for the
    war effort.

    GERMANY, THE ACTUAL TARGET

    Although Germany was the actual target of activities at Wellington
    House, the Ottoman Empire, having sided with Germany during the war
    received its fair share of false propaganda. No matter how sympathetic
    the British officers felt towards their Turkish compatriots, the
    image that Turkish officers were bad, evil and untrustworthy was
    strengthened by such slanderous data.

    NON-REAL NAMES

    Work carried out by those at Wellington House on Ottomans involved many
    so called authors and writers whose existence could not be verified
    and thus, the information remains unconfirmed. For example, there
    was apparently a Syrian member of the Ottoman Committee of Union and
    Progress Party, named Faiz whose memoirs are mentioned in publications
    of the Wellington House. This persons existence is totally make-belief
    and his statements on Talat Pasha, a complete fallacy since he never
    existed. Wellington House also proves the close co-operation which
    existed between them and the American diplomats and missionaries based
    in Turkey during that time. Since it is documented that these groups
    were close to the Armenians in Turkey, their so called information
    from Turkey is a total fabrication.

    BLUE BOOK ORDERED BY LLOYD GEORGE

    Public law and order was severely disrupted as a result of Armenians
    revolting against Ottoman authority in eastern Anatolia, which led
    Bryce and Toynbee to concoct material to document alleged atrocities
    committed by Ottomans. Lloyd George asked to collect these documents
    in the Blue Book. This document was later submitted to the British
    parliament and has since been used as a classic documentation by
    radical nationalist Armenian groups.

    TOYNBEE WAS AN ANTI-TURK

    It is thought that Toynbee believed in the authenticity and
    truthfulness of material received from American missionaries in
    Anatolia. However, he also added some spice to these imaginary stories,
    since it was his country that was at war with Turkey and he thought
    it would be right to lie in his reports. As was proved in his late
    career, Toynbee was indeed an avid Turk hater, but was too far away
    from the events of eastern Turkey in 1916 to document anything.

    It is easy to see far away from such events Armenians living in
    Turkey were and in looking at Toynbees data. Toynbee also seems to
    have exaggerated their relıabılıty for they turned and fought against
    their former protector for promises made by outsiders. For example
    so many anecdotes mentioned by western observers are not by western
    travelers but by a local Armenians travelling only short distances.

    One tenth of the anecdotes do not even have a source of any kind.

    Other sources are generally hearsay and have no witnesses who can
    attest to the so called crimes.

    NO REACTIONS FROM TURKEY

    All propaganda against Germany by Wellington House has been forgotten,
    yet unfortunately Bryce - Toynbee documents have been recognized
    as true in Britain and U.S. These documents have always been used
    by radical militant Armenians to pursue their goals. There is no
    information at hand about whether Turkey has shown any reactions
    against the impact of these documents. The mentioned Blue Book has
    been published more then once. Ara Sarafian who is to publish the
    book for the third time does not mention the fact that the books
    contents were prepared at Wellington House and that its sources are
    untrustworthy. Thus, propaganda carried out by the British during
    World War I continues to spread its venom against all Turkish people
    living around the world.

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