James
Bryce
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James
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Lord James Bryce was born in Belfast, in Ireland, in 1838. Statesman,
scholar, advisor to the British liberal party, he started taking
an interest in the Armenians during his stay in the Caucasus in
1876.
In 1904 he took part in the International Pro Armenia Movement,
holding conferences and meetings in favour of the Armenians persecuted
within the Ottoman empire. In 1907 he was appointed ambassador to
the United States and in 1914 was made a member of the Hague Tribunal.
In 1915 His British Majesty's government gave him a mandate to prepare
a file on the persecution and massacres of Armenians in Turkey.
In 1916 he published his Blue Book, with extensive documentary
evidence of the massacre of Armenians. The documents in the Blue
Book contained reliable eye-witness accounts collected by the
historian Arnold Toynbee, and concerned the deportation and
systematic extermination of the Armenian nation in the Ottoman empire
while the genocide was in progress. Lord Bryce sent the Blue
Book to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
As from 1917 Lord James Bryce dedicated the rest of his life to
pursuing the possibility of setting up the League of Nations.
He died in Sidmouth, England, in 1922.
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