[26] _Our Responsibilities for Turkey_, by the Duke of Argyll, K.G.,
K.T., John Murray, 1896, p. 72.
[27] The supersession of Article 16 of the Treaty of San Stefano by
Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin.
[28] _Town Topics_ of February 10, 1917, had the following: "The idiotic
and ignorant criticism of the Navy one hears occasionally, recalls an
immortal answer by a harassed First Lord, during an earlier Armenian
atrocity (1895-96)--
"'Will the right honourable gentleman tell the House definitely whether
it is proposed to send a British battleship to Armenia?' asked the bore
who worried about every country but his own.
"'It is not proposed to send any ships there,' replied the Minister
gravely. 'Navigation, I am informed by expert advisers at the Admiralty,
has not been good in the vicinity of Ararat since the cruise of the
Ark.'"
Would to God that this intelligence had reached the Foreign Offices of
Europe twenty years earlier, before the signing of the Treaty of Berlin.
[29] The Cyprus Convention.