BETRAYAL: The Promise Never Kept BETRAYAL: The Promise Never Kept ______________________ Genocide And The West’s Secret War For OIL Shahan Natalie Soghomon Tehlirian Armen Garo Sylva Natalie Manoogian Ara Khachig Manoogian For more information about this book and related documentation, please visit www.snff.org © 2019 Sylva Natalie Manoogian and Ara Khachig Manoogian All Right Reserved ISBN 978-1-950801-02-2 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or trans- mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, in- cluding photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. For further detail please contact: Shahan Natalie Family Foundation, Inc. 3727 West Magnolia Blvd., #215 Burbank, CA 91505 USA Email:
[email protected] This book is dedicated to the memory of Shahan Natalie, Soghomon Tehlirian, Arron Sachaklian, all those who have invested their time and energy for the preservation of the Armenian people without any expectation of personal monetary gains, and to those who may one day choose to do the same. Contents INTRODUCTION ix Chapter 1: Ides of March 1 Chapter 2: The Birth of Nemesis 23 Chapter 3: Broken Promises of Reforms for the Ottoman Armenians 29 Chapter 4: Armenian Revolutionary Parties 37 Chapter 5: The Young Turks 43 Chapter 6: The Four Pashas 53 Chapter 7: Turks and Russians Vying for Armenian Support 63 Chapter 8: Turkish Resistance to the Young Turks 67 Chapter 9: German and Ottoman Genocidal Cooperation 73 Chapter 10: Russians Turned Bolshevik 81 Chapter 11: Secret Treaty 89 Chapter 12: Arming the Enemy 99 Chapter 13: Morgenthau 107 Chapter 14: Presenting the Armenian Case 133 Chapter 15: One Man Armenian Lobby 159 Chapter 16: British Spies 169 Chapter 17: ARF 9th General Assembly 181 Chapter 18: U.S.