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AMBASSADOR MORGENTHAU'S STORY
this mood. In a few days, however, he was as good-natured as ever, for Bulgaria had taken sides with Turkey.
Talaat's attitude toward the Armenians was summed up in the proud boast which he made to his friends: "I have accomplished more toward solving the Armenian problem in three months than Abdul Hamid accomplished in thirty years!"