Armenian genocide and FDR coup

[BornagainDUer]

In 1911, the huge Singer factory in Scotland faced 11,000 orderly workers in the “first significant strike ever waged against a multinational corporation” (The People, May 2001). By that time, Singer and other U.S. companies like Rockefeller <http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/rockefeller.html>’s Standard Oil and American Tobacco, were embedded in what is now Turkey. Historian Simon Payaslian has documented how, in order to protect American investments, the U.S. government turned a blind eye to the Ottoman genocide of Armenians in 1915. The U.S. could not protect Singer’s Russian factory from nationalization after the 1917 revolution.


Now guess who was a bigplayer at Singer. A man named Robert Clark. Clark also served with Smedley Butler in China during the Boxer Rebellion and was on the list of those who plotted the FDR coup.



http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Genocide/Young_Turks_SBB.html
The U.S. High Commissioner to Turkey was Admiral Mark L. Bristol, a man with a reputation as a bigot and a determined advocate of U.S. alliance with Mustafa Kemal. "The Armenians," Bristol wrote, "are a race like the Jews-they have little or no national spirit and poor moral character." It was better for the United States, he contended, to jettison support for the Armenian republic as soon as possible, stabilize U.S. relations with the emerging Turkish government, and to enlist Kemal's support in gaining access to the oil fields of the former Ottoman Empire. Bristol's argument found a receptive audience in the new Harding administration in Washington, whose affinity for oil interests eventually blossomed into the famous Teapot Dome bribery scandal.

Here is what future CIA head Allen Dulles said on the matter when he was Undersectretary for Mid East Affairs.
"Confidentially the State Department is in a bind. Our task would be simple if the reports of the atrocities could be declared untrue or even exaggerated but the evidence, alas, is irrefutable," Dulles wrote in reply to Bristol's requests for State Department intervention with U.S. publishers to shift the tone of news reports still dribbling out of Turkey and Armenia. ' he Secretary of State wants to avoid giving the impression that while the United States is willing to intervene actively to protect its commercial interests, it is not willing to move on behalf of the Christian minorities." Dulles went on to complain about the agitation in the U.S. on behalf of Armenians, Greeks, and Palestinian Jews. "I've been kept busy trying to ward off congressional resolutions of sympathy for these groups.''


Hitler stated later that it was the West's ambivalence toward the Armenian genocide that reduced his fear of retaliation for the Holocaust. According to author Eustace Mullins Allen and brother JF met Hitler.

Here there be evildoers.

[aquart]

1. The Dulles brothers were the scum of the earth.

[still_one]

2. The Armenian genocide should be recognized, it is just that the timing sucks

This could have been done years ago when the Democrats had the majority, or even under a republican control, but why do it now when we have incorrectly immersed ourselves into a conflict that makes the entire situation precarious?

[BornagainDUer]

3. Now is the perfect time!

Throw a wrench in the Bushboys war.

[still_one]

4. Not for bush, because he won't care anyway, but for the soldiers there

The truth is neither side will get us out of there before 2008, and our troops are already have a non win situation, and enough obstacles

[BornagainDUer]

5. My thinking is that this is a way of forcing Bush to act.