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Bryce then penned a book entitled The Treatment of Armenians in the

Ottoman Empire and continued his defamation campaign through this book.
Historian McCarthy explained that the real author of the book was Toynbee.

According to McCarthy, all the techniques visible in the said Armenian re-
port were identical to the later falsified report that detailed the German vio-

lence in Belgium. This report also included anonymous information gathered
from unreliable sources but there was no conclusive evidence that the peo-

ple mentioned in the report had really said or written those things. 285

In time, it was revealed that none of the accounts of violence that Bryce's

report on Germans included were true. This is what author H. C. Peterson
writes about the said report:

His [Bryce's] report is one of the most extreme examples of the definition of

propaganda as "assassination by word." It was in itself one of the worst atroc-
ities of the war. 286

The very same method was used against the Turks; the very same black
propaganda campaign was directed at them using the same methods by the

same people. Germany years later received an apology from Britain for the
injustice done, but Turks still had to deal with the same defamation campaign.

The British deep state sent highlights from the Bryce Report to Ameri-

can newspapers for publication. This is what McCarthy writes about it:

Gilbert Parker reported "The New York Times, Philadelphia Public Ledger,
and the Chicago Herald … devoted much space to the advance sheets of 'these

Armenian horror stories'." Current History a monthly magazine feature of the
New York Times made the Bryce Report the centerpiece of a series on anti-

Turkish articles, quoting the entire lengthy introduction of the Bryce Report
and summarizing supposedly the most ghastly portions of the book. The New
York Times itself devoted three pages to extracts from the Bryce Report. The

New Republic praised Bryce on his selection of sources and evidence, without
mentioning that most of the sources were anonymous, then went on to sum-
marize the material and condemn the Turks. Other papers and magazines did

the same, summarizing or quoting directly from the report. 287

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