File No. 867.4016/257a
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Turkey (Philip)
1800. New reports reaching the United States are constantly furnishing additional evidence of the terrible character of the persecution which has been inflicted upon the Armenians in Turkey, and of the suffering which the survivors are still undergoing, and these reports are increasing the horror and indignation which the people of this country feel in regard to this matter. Even the slight concessions contained in the promises from the Ottoman Government that the orders for deportation should not include Catholic and Protestant Armenians, and that Armenians desiring to emigrate to [Page 847] the United States should be permitted to do so, seem to have been kept imperfectly or not at all. You are instructed to again express to the Turkish Government the feeling of the people of this country upon this matter, in accordance with Department’s 1140, October 4.1