:48:02
It's bound to cause trouble.
:48:07
What danger are you trying
to protect us from?
:48:19
- Lf you have a problem
with taking my soldiers,
:48:25
you must sign this statement
:48:27
that you refuse the protection
of the Turkish government.
:48:37
[Raffi]: Lf Ussher
signed the document,
:48:38
it would be like giving
the Turks permission
:48:41
to slaughter the Americans
in the compound.
:48:44
The same way
:48:46
that they were massacring
the Armenians outside.
:48:48
- You've lost me.
:48:50
- Well, it was the same document
that he'd presented to the boy.
:48:53
If the United States government
ever made an inquiry
:48:55
into the incident,
that statement,
:48:57
the document the Turks
wanted Ussherto sign,
:48:59
would affirm that the Americans
were offered protection
:49:02
but that they refused.
:49:04
- And if he let them in?
:49:06
- Well, the Turks would use it
as a strategic point.
:49:08
With that many soldiers and
artillery based in the mission,
:49:11
they'd have a foothold
in the Armenian quarter.
:49:13
- A Trojan horse.
:49:16
- Right.
:49:19
- So what did he do?
:49:21
- Our premises are part of
the United States of America.
:49:26
They're extraterritorial
by treaty right.
:49:28
Completely neutral.
:49:30
And we will preserve
this neutrality to the last.
:49:38
[Armenian]