Originally posted by maral_m79
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Bristol's bigotry
In his Sunday letter "Short on substance," Ali F. Sevin attempts to
refute the strong factual evidence put forward by Stella Jatras
("Genocide as policy," Letters, Wednesday) by citing the discredited
Adm. Mark Bristol.
Adm. Bristol was a notorious racist and bigot whose hatred of Greeks
and Armenians, as well as his anti-Semitism, have been documented in
well-researched historical works.
Adm. Bristol has been criticized by many of his American
contemporaries, including Consul General George Horton and Edward Hale
Bierstadt of the Near East Relief Committee for his questionable
reporting and analysis of the realities that were transpiring in the
Near East. Both these Americans and others fully back Ambassador Henry
Morgenthau's irrefutable proof of the Turkish genocide that victimized
Greek and Armenian Christians.
Adm. Bristol referred to Greeks as "the worst race in the Near East."
Such a vile comment directed at an entire group of people, especially
when they were the victims of deportations, forced death marches and
mass murder, makes Adm. Bristol a stooge of the Turkish nationalist
criminals and discredits his biased reporting.
THEODORE G. KARAKOSTAS
Boston
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