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A2074 APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD but freedom of the press does not mean In order to understand the role of the Ar purloining the national treasury Dashnag license to spread falsehoods and mali menian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), leaders were ousted from power. cious rumors. I think Members of Con it is necessary briefly to review Armenian his TERRORISM In ameRICA tory, for ARF misdeeds in America are rooted gress should be extremely careful in in the ideologies it fostered in the stormy, Armenians in America, while not gratified verifying any statements that are placed feud-infested underworld of the Near East. with Soviet rule, are content to see age-long in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, and not massacres ended and Turkey, the dread Mo DASHnags as REVOLUTIONIST's lend themselves as unconscious agents hammedan enemy, held at bay. A degree of the spreading of false and libelous The Dashnags are a secret political society of religious tolerance has been granted to of self-styled socialist-revolutionists, founded statements. the Holy See of the Armenian Church in in 1890 in the Caucasus in order to liberate St. Etchmiadzin in the shadow of Mt. Ararat, Armenians from Turkish oppression. Its form enabling it to hold elections, appoint bishops was (and is) oligarchic and its members sub and keep alive the flame of Christianity “in ject to strict militaristic discipline. Instead the hope,” as expressed by Bishop Mazlou John R. Flynn and the Dashnags of resorting to the ballot or constitutional mian of Greece, “that tomorrow may have methods, the ARF determined to “achieve something better in store for us.” political and economic freedom by means of EXTENSION OF REMARKS Since their ousting, exiled Dashnag leaders rebellion,” and “terrorize Government offi have entered into a web of intrigue with any of cials, betrayers, and all sorts of oppressors.” power which promised to place them in the According to official Dashnag publications saddle again. In 1933 Hitler lavishly prom HON. FRANK E. H00K (from which these excerpts have faithfully ised everything to everybody, and looked been made, it proceeded to “form fighting of MICHIGAN - with particular favor on any disgruntled bands” and “use every means to arm the clique which could pave the way for his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people.” Droshag, official ARF organ, re drang nach osten policy of reaching the porting on a party congress at Geneva, Caucasian oil fields. Early in 1933 Dashnags Friday, May 4, 1945 summed it up as follows: suddenly revived their cult of the tricolor— Mr. HOOK. Mr. Speaker, under leave “Expressions of revolutionary tactics—gen its red, orange, and blue party flag. In mass to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I eral rebellion, armed resistance to the forces of revivalist meetings, marked with wild re include the following article: government, wide political terrorism, proj ligious frenzy, they worshipped the defunct ects of revolutionary demonstrations, armed flag of a defunct regime. John T. FLYNN AND THE DASHNAGS popular self-defense, political and economic On July 1, 1933, Archbishop Leon Tourian, Frantically trying to sabotage the sedition strikes, peasant and labor movements—all Primate of the Armenian Church in North trial and smear witnesses, the McCormick Of these, cultivated and unified in their mi and South America, refused to speak at Ar Patterson press axis has now resorted to the nutest details, shall constitute the totality of menian Day at the Chicago Fair unless the use of lies lifted direct from Fascist files. the system of a modus operandi by which the Dashnag tricolor was removed. He de Writing in the Washington Times-Herald, party is to achieve its program in life (trans manded that only the American flag appear; John T. Flynn, ex-America Firster, has at lation).” the audience voted overwhelmingly in his tacked John Roy Carlson, Armenian-born DASHNAGS as POLITICAL TERRORISTs favor. From then on the infuriated ARF author of Under Cover, and prospective Gov “Should we continue terrorism or not?” press denounced the archbishop as a traitor ernment witness in the sedition trial. Flynn party leaders asked in an official booklet, and and a Soviet agent. Seems to have based his article almost exclu answered the query: “After a few successful At an outing in August 1933, he was at sively on the time-worn web of lies concocted operations, thanks to the terroristic disposi tacked by seven Dashnag hoodlums while by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, tion of the leading elements, the party blessing parishioners of the Worcester Church also known as Dashnag, with headquarters eventually completely adopted terrorism.” cf Our Saviour. Hairenik began to print let in Boston. This revolutionary gang with a Terror and intimidation were used in instru ters threatening his life. Four samples fol long record of terrorist-fascist activity, is ments indispensable to political warfare pre low. “Archbishop Tourian will be punished negligible in number but well organized. It cisely as later used by Nazi brownshirts. Ter sooner or later. The day of reckoning will is thoroughly discredited in the eyes of Amer rorism was directed mainly against Ar come.” “ “ ” “He is going to be sorry icans of Armenian origin, the overwhelming menians, and few who opposed the ARF for it, and very sorry.” " " " “He will majority of whom are loyal and law-abiding were spared, whether laymen or holy priests. get his share, I am sure.” " " " - “Until citizens grateful to the United States of Dashnags—as did Russian nihilists of the Tourian is punished ruthlessly, the bones America. time—lived in a World of total hate and of our marytrs will not rest in their places.” Flynn's masterpiece of distortion is proving revenge. Hairenik stepped up its tempo by printing popular with native Fascists. It is being cir I. Jamharian was a wealthy Armenian who a letter which offered a reward: “I will gladly culated widely in Chicago at meetings of refused to contribute. He “fell under the give $100 if something is done to teach We, the Mothers Mobilize and other defeatist blows of a dagger * * * in broad daylight Tourian a lesson.” When the Archbishop groups identified with the Bund, Silver Shirt, in the courtyard of the Armenian church, in asked for police protection Hairenik de and Coughlinite mentality. Flynn's smear the presence of a great throng,” wrote M. nounced him for seeking the protection of piece has been picked up by Gerald L. K. Varandyan, Dashnag historian. Death sen “alien (American) police.” Smith, boosted in the Chicago Tribune and tences were decreed by the central committee In December 1933 while celebrating Christ the Brooklyn Tablet in a futile attempt to and were detailed to the “terroristic body of mass mass in the Holy Cross Church in New offset the searing effects of Under Cover. the ARF experts in political murder York, the Archbishop was murdered by a And the bulk of Flynn's “facts”—flimsy, regionally located. A dagger (Dashnag, which gang of Dashnag assassins in the favorite picayune, irrelevant half-truths, distortions, is the abbreviation for the Armenian word Dashnag manner; a butcher knife plunged and outright lies—have been inspired by federation, itself means dagger) was the most deep into his groin. Two ARF officials Armenian Fascist circles in Boston. frequent instrument used. Droshag widely were convicted of first-degree murder, seven In accepting the usual trash from the publicized acts of terrorism and trium other Dashnags were convicted of first-degree Dashnag kitchens of journalistic rot, Flynn phantly ended its reports with “The ter manslaughter. The convictions were sus has insulted all American Armenians (except rorists are at large.” In one instance a killer tained in Successive courts while the ARF the criminally minded Dashnag) and com was caught and executed; Droshag lamented press (under Darbinian's complete charge) mitted the sacrilege of terming their mar the death of “that noble soul.” In Septem spoke of “ignorant jurymen,” “false wit tyred Prelate a “Communist agent.” Flynn ber 16, 1933, Hairenik, Dashnag mouthpiece nesses” and slurred the American judiciary. has whitewashed the sordid Dashnag record of Boston, reaffirmed the traditional policy It referred to its nine cutthroats as “our and called it “patriotic.” Dashnags' Nazi of terror: blameless comrades.” On March 26, 1935, the sympathies are clearly shown in this sample “Another effected practice was the intimi Honorable Thomas E. Dewey, now Governor of quotation from the September 17, 1936, issue dation of prominent men in order to obtain New York, who had been engaged by Ar menian democratic forces in the United of their Armenian-language organ, Hairenik, financial support. Those who refused were States to help prepare the case against the edited daily by propaganda chief, Reuben ‘put on the spot.’ In fact, it was very similar Darbinian: Dashnag, wrote to the Honorable Herbert to the underground methods of modern Lehman, then Governor: “Italy has not only become regenerated by racketeering, except that its goal was noble.” fascism, but has become an empire nation, “For many years a very small group of and today is reckoned as a military power in By a curious twist of diplomacy the ARF fanatic zealots among the American people international politics. Germany has not only became rulers for about 2 years (1918–20) of have perpetrated murders and assaults upon become regenerated by Hitlerism, but has the territory now comprising Soviet Armenia. the duly constituted authorities, in a cam turned her face to the east, and displays her Being used to revolutionary methods, how paign of terrorism * * * for the purpose fist to Moscow. * * * Hitlerism and fas ever, they failed as administrators. They of imposing the will of the few, upon the cism, which are the stepsons of bolshevism, engaged in a series of expansionist wars which many.