Message requesting power to accept mandate for Armenia
Document Title: Mandate for Armenia. Message from the President of the United States, requesting that the Congress grant the executive power to accept for the United States a mandate for Armenia.
Document Date: May 24, 1920 Author: Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), President of the United States, 1913-1921
Committee: Committee on Foreign Affairs.
House Document Number: H.doc.791 Serial Volume: 7768 Sessional-Volume: 97 Length: 3p
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See also: The Arbitral Award on Turkish-Armenian Boundary by Woodrow Wilson (Historical Background, Legal Aspects, and International Dimensions) Ara Papian Iran & the Caucasus| Vol. 11, No. 2 (2007), pp. 255-294| Published by: BRILL
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25597337
" Two facts overshadow everything else about Woodrow Wilson's relationship with the Armenian Genocide. First, he was President of the United States when those atrocities occurred. Second, he did not intervene to try to stop those atrocities. Wilson's situation vis á vis the Armenian Genocide eerily foreshadowed Franklin Roosevelt's towards the Holocaust a generation later. The same question arises about both leaders – why? Why did they act or fail to act as they did? Likewise, with both leaders that question has a necessary antecedent. This is Senator Howard Baker's famous, repeated query to the witnesses at the Watergate committee hearings in 1973: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?” That is the first question that needs to be put to President Wilson about Armenia.
As is rarely the case with historical evidence, it is possible to give a precise, even quantitative estimate of what Wilson knew about Armenia and when he knew it. Thanks to Arthur Link's monumental edition of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (hereafter Wilson Papers), it is possible to measure, at least roughly, the attention that Wilson gave to Armenia. The measurements come from the three cumulative index volumes of the Wilson Papers that cover the years between his becoming President in 1913 and his death in 1924.
The first of these indexes is for the twelve volumes that cover 1913 through 1916. Under “Armenia” there are three entries; more important, under “Armenians, plight of” there are six entries."
A friend in power? Woodrow Wilson and Armenia pp. 103-112 By John Milton Jr. Cooper
America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 Edited by Jay Winter
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare (No. 15)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2004
Hardback ISBN:9780521829588 | Paperback ISBN:9780521071239
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