Context: In his memoir Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story, US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau Sr had a meeting with Talaat Pasha, where Talaat asked Henry for a list of American Life insurance policies. This because of at the time, ongoing Armenian Genocide, the Ottoman government wanted to collect Armenian policy holders, since they had no heirs *Cough*>! The Ottomans killed them and stole their property and wealth !<*Cough* and the Ottoman government was the benefactor now.
Appalled, Morgenthau Sr refused to give such a list, and continued to speak out against the actions of the Ottoman government, eventually resigning from the ambassadorship in 1916.
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Context: In his memoir Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story, US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau Sr had a meeting with Talaat Pasha, where Talaat asked Henry for a list of American Life insurance policies. This because of at the time, ongoing Armenian Genocide, the Ottoman government wanted to collect Armenian policy holders, since they had no heirs *Cough*>! The Ottomans killed them and stole their property and wealth !<*Cough* and the Ottoman government was the benefactor now.
Appalled, Morgenthau Sr refused to give such a list, and continued to speak out against the actions of the Ottoman government, eventually resigning from the ambassadorship in 1916.
This is a great meme format