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Efforts in behalf of the Armenians

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Memorandum of recommendations from Paris—Appointment of Colonel Haskell as High Commissioner and Director of Relief and of General Harbord as chief of a military mission of investigation—Appeals for postponement of withdrawal of British forces from the Transcaucasus—Warning addressed by the President to Turkish authorities of the consequences of further massacres, August 16, 1919; Turkish reply, August 25—French proposal to occupy southern Armenia—Report of the Harbord mission (Documents 805–829)