Fout became a missionary for the Near East Foundation which aimed to assist Armenian refugees from the Genocide who were dispersed throughout the Middle East . He headed one section of this Commission in the relief and was one of its eighteen commission members returning to the United States from the Near East in 1919 . During the stopover in Rome , he affirmed that a third of the Armenian nation had been executed and that those remaining were in a dreadful state and required immediate assistance from the United States . His message to America at the time was published in '' The New York Times ''
Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Henry Harness Fout