On April 13, 1920, Major General James G. Harbord, who served as General John J. Pershing’s Chief of Staff during ‪World War I, submitted to the United States Senate ‘Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to ‪‎Armenia‬’ (SD 66-2-Vol-15-33). Writing his report aboard the U.S.S. Martha Washington in 1919, Harbord stated that “[m]utilation, violation, torture and death have left their haunting memories in a hundred beautiful ‪‎Armenian valleys, and