The First World War by Susan R. Grayzel

Author:Susan R. Grayzel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2020-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

Tomorrow the exodus of one-half of the population of this region commences. Were the people not so entirely subdued I should expect to see some stirring scenes. As it is, I can hardly think it possible that the authorities will succeed in sending everyone into exile, but as yet there does not seem to be any sign of their relenting or of their granting many exemptions.

i have the honor to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

/signed/

/Leslie A. Davis,/

Consul.

From Leslie A. Davis, The Slaughterhouse Province: An American Diplomat’s Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1914–1917, ed. Susan K. Blair (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Aristide D. Caratzas, 1989), 143, 146–49.

1The vilayets (the proper Turkish plural is vilâyetler) were the main administrative subdivisions of the Empire starting from the second half of the nineteenth century.

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