...On February 26, the appearance of an Armenian delegation before the Supreme Council briefly reminded the peacemakers that the Ottoman Empire remains to be settled. Boghos Nubar Pasha was smooth, rich and cultivated; his father had been prime minister of Egypt. His partner, Avetis Aharonian was tough, cynical (!) poet from the Caucasus...
  ...like other delegations, they staked out a claim for a huge area of land ... less typically they also asked for the protection of an outside power, a wise request for a country with such neighbors and such a past. They placed their hopes for the United States. "Scarcely a day passed," said an American expert, "that mournful Armenians, bearded and black-clad, did not besiege the American delegation or, less frequently, the President (means Woodrow Wilson)", setting forth the really horrible conditions in their own native land."... 
  ... British children were told to remember the strving Armenians when they failed to clean their plates... 
  ...fine sentments - but they amounted to little in the end. At the Peace conference, even heartfelt agreement on principle faltered in the face of other considerations. Armenia was far away; it was surrounded by enemies  and the Allies had few forces in the area...
   ...On March 7, House assured Lloyd George and Clemenceau that the United States would undoubtedly take on (the Armenian) mandate.  Lloyd George was delighted at the prospect of the Americas taking on the "noble duty", and relieved that th French were not taking on a mandate. House, as he often did, was exaggerating. Wilson had warned the Supreme Council that "he could think of nothing the people of the United State would be less inclined to accept than military responsibility in Asia." It is perhaps a measure of how far Wilson's judgment detoriated  that, on May 14, when Armenia came up at the council of four, he agreed to accept a mandate, subjec, he added, to the consent of the American Senate...
   ...When Aharonian, the Armenian poet who had spoken for his country in Paris, tried to see Curzon in London, he was brushed off with a letter. "What we want to see now is concrete evidence of some constructive and adminstrative ability at home, instead of purely external policy based on propaganda and mendicancy," wrote Curzon. On November 17, the Armenian government signed an armistice with Turkey which left only a tiny scrap of country still free. Five days later (!), a message arrived from President Wilson. Under the treaty of Sevres he had been asked to draw Armenia's boundaries; he decided it should have 42.000 square kilometers of Turkish territory.

P>S> it's not OK to copy excerpts without author's consent, but anyway. I hope this would be just an advertisment of the book.