Birinci Dünya Savaşı sonunda imzalanan Mondros Mütarekesi'ni takip eden günlerde Türk yurdu yer yer işgallere uğrarken Çukurova yöresi de 1918 yılının Kasım ve Aralık aylarında Fransız ve İngiliz ortak işgaline uğramıştı. Çukurova bölgesi, ortak bir işgale uğramasına rağmen, bu bölgede İngilizlerle Fransızlar arasında nüfuz yönünden siyasi bir çekişme kendini gösteriyordu. Fransa, İngiltere üzerinde yaptığı baskıdan başarıyla çıkacak, Suriye ve Kilikya bölgesini kendi nüfuzu altına alacaktı.

Tenacious and systematic attempts are being made by a number of Armenian 'scholars' to sway, especially Jewish public opinion, that there is a link between the experiences of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, which they label as 'the first genocide of the twentieth century', and those of the European Jewry during World War II. By their persistent attempts, skilful manipulation of the feelings of some Jewish and other sympathisers, and masterful use of distorted, tendencious, and even forged 'documents', they have succeeded in winning over some of those who are the real victims of the Holocaust, and a number of younger generation Jewish writers, such as Yehuda Bauer, Leo Kuper, and a few others. Is there such a parallel? Let us examine the arguments for and against before we answer this question.

Sarton, who was born in 1884 in Belgium, came to the United States in 1915. He gave a few lectures and courses during his first years in America, and in 1918 he became associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He had already founded Isis in 1912, while in Belgium, and although its publication was interrupted during the four years of World War I, it began to reappear in the postwar years when Sarton established himself in the United States.