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Near East Relief. Comrade Rykov and a number of Bolshevik dignitaries visited the headquarters of the Near East Relief at Tiflis (a U. S. organization). M. Rykov inspected 8,000 Armenian orphans for whom the Relief is caring, spoke to them in Armenian, told them that they were victims of an imperial war and that under the freedom of the Bolsheviki they will never more be subject to the atrocities which their ancestors suffered at the hands of the Turks. He then kissed several of the children, expressed complete satisfaction with the work of the Relief...
...vigorous denial of the existence of polygamy and harems in Turkey and an explanation of the war and Armenian "massacre" questions were the main points brought out in a recent interview by Moukbil Kemal Bey, the well-known Turkish architect who is now in this country handling negotiations for a statue of Mustapha Kemal...
...facts of the case are these," he said, "a part of our people revolted--we tried to stop them. What would you do if the negroes of your country should start an armed rebellion? Just what we did--suppress it. No massacre of the Armenians was ordered; there was no deliberate, systematic killing of Armenian Christians; the massacres that flourish in your papers are in reality battles where the Turks try to bring back a rebellious part of the people...
...Dark Angel. Michael Aden's first play sustains that singular Armenian's record for tart diversion. For The Dark Angel was obviously written by Michael Arlen, despite the credit of the playbill to H. B. Trevelyan. The technic may be Guy Bolton's (who wove the structure, we are told) but lines such as "She always liked small hats," no one would write but Author Arlen...
...Fetvadjian, who recently gave an illustrated lecture at the Fogg Museum on early Armenian influence in modern European art, is a native of Turkey. He had the distinction of being the first to graduate from the Constantinople Art School with a scholarship from the Turkish government...