>: "CONFESSION FROM WRITER OF ''BLUE BOOK''
HURRIYET- British historian Arnold Toynbee, the writer of the ''Blue Book'' shown as an evidence of Armenian allegations, confessed in his memoirs that they wouldn't have written the book if they had known that it was being prepared for propaganda. In his ''Recollections'' written in 1966 and translated into Turkish, Toynbee, who died in 1975, confessed, ''the Armenians were after their political ideals since Turkish-Russian War of 1877-78. They hoped that they could establish a state like the Greek. The political intentions of the Greek and Armenians did not have any legitimacy because both groups were minorities. They aimed to divide the empire. Turks discovered that the local Armenians could work as 'fifth wing' for the Russians. So, Turks decided to send away the Armenians from the war zone. This can be considered as a security measure. Some other governments made similar decisions under similar circumstances. For example, when the Japanese attacked the United States in Pearl Harbor, the United States forced citizens of Japanese origin to migrate.'' "
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