On 24 May 1915, the Triple Entente (Russia, Britain, and France) sent a diplomatic communiqué to the Sublime Porte condemning the Ottoman "crimes against humanity" and threatening to "hold personally responsible for those crimes all members of the Ottoman government, as well as those of its agents who will be found implicated in similar massacres". Witness testimony was published in books such as "The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire" (1916) and "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" (1918), which raised public awareness about the genocide and influenced later historiography. The atrocities were widely covered in Western newspapers and condemned by world leaders such as Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill.