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...glad to learn that at long last some of the half million Armenian exiles scattered all over the world are finding refuge in Soviet Armenia. But Soviet Armenia is only 10% of the Armenian homeland. Everyone knows that from Bible times till World War I, Mt. Ararat, Kars, Ardahan, Van, Bitlis, Erzerum, Harpoot and Diarbekir have been the home of the Armenian people. In the province of Diarbekir alone there were more than 50,000 Armenians before World War I. I know. I was born there and saw the Massacres...
...winds of power politics blow good to some. Last week the beneficiary, long persecuted in the Moslem world, was Christianity's eldest daughter, Armenia.* The benefactor was atheist Russia...
Russia grabbed the chance the West had fumbled. In Soviet Armenia, population has increased faster than in any other Soviet Republic; industrial progress has been so swift that Armenia came to be called Moscow's "favorite child." Russia's armies today include 300,000 Armenian soldiers, 50 Armenian generals. And Moscow has publicly blessed Armenian patriots' claim to the Kars and Ardahan districts of eastern Turkey...
...Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro) III, King of Italy and Sardinia (1900-46) and Albania (1939-43); Emperor of Ethiopia (May 1939 November 1943); also King of Cyprus, of Jerusalem, of Armenia-ancient honors meaningless these many centuries...
William Shakespeare looked like the Bard of the Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...