December 1920

When I began, about ten years ago, to protest with all my indignation against the tremendous campaign of lies contrived by the ‘Christian’ Levantines, I had already become certain, like all those Frenchmen who have lived in the Orient, of the disgrace of the Armenians and the Greeks, but I did not think they had stooped so low. It was only in the course of my struggle to defend Turkey that I completed the accumulation of my documentary evidence, and with a growing horror. That is why my initial charges were so mild. The thousand lies of the Armenians and the thousand little betrayals of the Greeks, although undeniable, were doubtless a little less repugnant at the time when I still did not know the details enough to make me shudder. Concerning the dear Armenian martyrs, I was unaware during the war that they had slaughtered two thirds of the non-Armenian population of those towns occupied by the Russians: 300,000 souls at least, according to the evidence of the Caucasians.

For a long time, the poor Turks have been crying out for Europe to condescend at least to send a commission of enquiry to these places. But Europe does not even consider it, since they have accepted without verification the stupid peremptory directive of the English – Lloyd George in particular – to be aware that everything coming from Muslims, whoever they might be, is not worth taking seriously.

The Greeks have always held the record for treachery and every day of retrospective examination reveals a new deceit to be added to their disgraceful baggage. Today's newspapers tell us of the scheming which Constantine is attempting to put the Greek military officers guarding the River Struma in contact with German high command and to push them into betraying France by opening the gates of Salonica.

Moreover, I am on the track of yet another betrayal (a secret alliance of the Greek division of General Paraskevopoulos with the Bulgarians) which our own Franchet d’Espérey could expose and neutralise in time with a victorious surprise attack.