It didn’t end there. The US cruiser Tennessee and a couple other US cruisers transported several thousand Jewish (and some Armenians) from Ottoman-controlled Palestine to Brit-controlled Alexandria, Eqypt.
The same Morgenthau also protested the Armenian Genocide... and the Ottoman in charge asked him why does it matter to him, as “only” Christians are murdered. Morgenthau pressed on.
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“You are a Jew; these people are Christians. The Mohammedans and the Jews always get on harmoniously. We are treating the Jews here all right. What have you to complain of? Why can’t you let us do with these Christians as we please?
https://books.google.com/books?id=orfADgAAQBAJ&pg=PT266