Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yearly thrill in the Casino this year was supplied by an unnamed Armenian resident of Paris who, in two hours, lost 900,000 francs ($41,850.00). Last year André Citroën, famous French automobile manufacturer, was the public cynosure. He was reported to have won more than 1,000,000 francs, about $65,000 at that time, at a single sitting...
...weakness of the Allies that influenced the course of events. The United States did send two observers, but observers do not influence the Turks. It takes force or a show of force to do so. ... Lord Curzon had to assent to Ismet's statement that the Armenian question was ended by the destruction of the Armenians, and the greatest crime of history was condoned. . . . But as long as the United States persists in its course of isolation ... it ill becomes us to criticize the other Powers. . . . Why had our help to be withheld at Lausanne? Will we be responsible...
Died. Dr. Garo Pasdermadjian, 48, Armenian diplomatic representative at Washington, of heart disease at Geneva, Switzerland. He had been envoy to the United States since April, 1920, when the U. S. Government recognized the Republic of Armenia. He went abroad to attend a conference on Russia...
...Ward, Professor Harlow and other Americans, unless protected from the outside, will be unable to escape death by the sword or by expatriation. The Conference is similarly bound to fail in the matter of the Straits and Constantinople and also in the matter of establishing a home for the Armenian nation, a question which has been regarded as a matter of honor for the United States...
...with no opportunity for schooling and insucient food to keep them healthy. Part of the money will be given to the International Committee in Constantinople which is feeding, as extensively as limited funds permit, the Russian refugees stranded in this city. The rest of the money will send Greek, Armenian, and Jewish children to school. These children are in a more lamentable condition than orphans who at least get food and some schooling. As far as possible, groups of Robert Colleges students will be made responsible for the children who have been sent to native schools through the generosity...