“it was US policy to look the other way during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, taking place openly in the streets in plain view. The American press there at the time refused to cover it — in cooperation with the US government.”
Wasn’t there, haven’t studied it, but my mother always talked about how her mother told her and her brother to eat all their food because there were “starving Armenians” who would love to have it.
I rather got the impression that “starving Armenian” was often heard.
I’m 85 and I knew more Armenians growing up in the Boston area than I did Italians.
Many settled in Watertown,MA.
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