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The Armenian Herald / Armenian National Union of America THE ARMENIAN HERALD "The Interest of the Weakest is as Sa cred as the Interest of the Strongest." President Wilson. CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN FOR NOVEMBER NUMBER Mr. Chakmakjian's article, Justice to Armenian question. Let us hope that Armenia, written for this number, is an time has come for them to fulfill their expose of Armenia's claims to freedom pledge by granting Armenia full inde and independence. It is quite opportune pendence. It gives us much pleasure to at this phase of the world's politics, reproduce at her request her article, when the fate of the oppressed national Turkey Must Die, which was pub ities are to be finally determined and lished in The Japan Gazette, Sept 26, solved in their favor. Mr. Chakmakjian 1918. as a student of Armenian history is qualified to speak with authority. Mr. Maynard Williams' article, Baku— Pan-Turanian Hub, restates in strong Mbs. Bertha S. Papazian's first chap terms the splendid resistance that the ter of her remarkable and eloquent study Armenians put up in the Caucasus of The Tragedy Armenia appears in of against the Tartars and the Turks in this number. The other chapters will the struggles at Baku. We are pub follow. They form a copyrighted book, lishing this article with the kind per and are published here by permission mission of the American Asiatic As of the Pilgrim Press. The book con sociation and the Doubleday, Page 4 based on stitutes a striking appeal, in Company. disputable arguments and facts, of the justice of the Armenian claim to inde pendence. It should be in the hands of Tigrane Yergate's epilogue of Can all well wishers of Armenia, as the Turkey Live? appears in our present surest key to the solution of the Arme number. His prophesy, made more than nian problem. twenty years ago, that the Turkish mili tarism under the guidance of Prussian Mrs. Diana Apcak holds a prominent officers will complete the destruction of place in the pantheon of living Arme the forces of the Near Eastern Christen nian writers. For years she has been dom opposed to Turkish barbarism, has an eloquent spokesman of martyred almost been fulfilled. The study deserves Armenia in the Far Eastern press, and not only greater recognition of the has contributed to the literature of the weight of the author's arguments but Armenian cause in never to be forgot also a more profound study of the con ten pages. Frank, outspoken, gifted siderations put forward by him in with a temperament, which does not per fathoming the causes of the Turkish de mit of subterfuges or circumlocutions, cay. she has put the case of Armenia on a high pedestal, and has won for it the M. Rene Pinon, whose illuminating work, applause of mankind. Her last studies on Near Eastern affairs we in The Crucifixion of Armenia on the tend to publish in The Armenian Herald, the Altar of Imperialism, is perhaps deals in this number with the Future of most serious indictment that has been Armenia, Persia, and Russia. It is a brought by any living writer against birds-eye view of the Persian situation the impotency of the great powers of drawn by the master hand of one of Europe for their failure to solve the France's most erudite authors. CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN FOR NOVEMBER NUMBER Mr. Chakmakjian's article, Justice to Armenian question. Let us hope that Armenia, written for this number, is an time has come for them to fulfill their expose of Armenia's claims to freedom pledge by granting Armenia full inde and independence. It is quite opportune pendence. It gives us much pleasure to at this phase of the world's politics, reproduce at her request her article, when the fate of the oppressed national Turkey Must Die, which was pub ities are to be finally determined and lished in The Japan Gazette, Sept 26, solved in their favor. Mr. Chakmakjian 1918. as a student of Armenian history is qualified to speak with authority. Mr. Maynard Williams' article, Baku— Pan-Turanian Hub, restates in strong Mbs. Bertha S. Papazian's first chap terms the splendid resistance that the ter of her remarkable and eloquent study Armenians put up in the Caucasus of The Tragedy Armenia appears in of against the Tartars and the Turks in this number. The other chapters will the struggles at Baku. We are pub follow. They form a copyrighted book, lishing this article with the kind per and are published here by permission mission of the American Asiatic As of the Pilgrim Press. The book con sociation and the Doubleday, Page 4 based on stitutes a striking appeal, in Company. disputable arguments and facts, of the justice of the Armenian claim to inde pendence. It should be in the hands of Tigrane Yergate's epilogue of Can all well wishers of Armenia, as the Turkey Live? appears in our present surest key to the solution of the Arme number. His prophesy, made more than nian problem. twenty years ago, that the Turkish mili tarism under the guidance of Prussian Mrs. Diana Apcak holds a prominent officers will complete the destruction of place in the pantheon of living Arme the forces of the Near Eastern Christen nian writers. For years she has been dom opposed to Turkish barbarism, has an eloquent spokesman of martyred almost been fulfilled. The study deserves Armenia in the Far Eastern press, and not only greater recognition of the has contributed to the literature of the weight of the author's arguments but Armenian cause in never to be forgot also a more profound study of the con ten pages. Frank, outspoken, gifted siderations put forward by him in with a temperament, which does not per fathoming the causes of the Turkish de mit of subterfuges or circumlocutions, cay. she has put the case of Armenia on a high pedestal, and has won for it the M. Rene Pinon, whose illuminating work, applause of mankind. Her last studies on Near Eastern affairs we in The Crucifixion of Armenia on the tend to publish in The Armenian Herald, the Altar of Imperialism, is perhaps deals in this number with the Future of most serious indictment that has been Armenia, Persia, and Russia. It is a brought by any living writer against birds-eye view of the Persian situation the impotency of the great powers of drawn by the master hand of one of Europe for their failure to solve the France's most erudite authors. THE ARMENIAN HERALD VOLUME 1 NOVEMBER, 1918 NUMBER 12 ARMENIAN FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE. The old world is dead and a new world will emerge from the terrible conflagration which has been devastating the world for the last four years—a world in which democracy will be safe and the oppressed and dependent nationalities will be restored to their lost heritage- The case of Armenia is one of the problems that the Peace Congress to be convened at Versailles will have to settle in accordance with the principles laid down in President Wilson's Mt. Vernon address, and with the declared policy of the allied powers that it is their intention to es tablish governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free choice of the native populations. No question is properly set tled unless it be disposed of in a manner entirely satisfactory to the in terested parties. The Armenian question has been discussed for the last fifty years. It has been the subject of numbers of ambassadorial re ports. It was thrashed out at the Berlin Congress, but so far it has received no solution. Up to the entry of Turkey into the present war, European diplomacy had made no serious attempt to rescue Armenia from her sufferings and ills, or to challenge the excesses, persecutions and massacres of the Turkish executioners. The doctrine of the European equilibrium, and the so-called necessity of upholding the integrity of the Ottoman Em pire, have been invoked as the principal causes which have prevented the great powers of Europe from fulfilling their elementary duties to ward the Armenians in the past. The result has been, as we know, that Turkey was practically allowed carte blanche to carry on her tra ditional work of slaughter, devastation, and plunder, without let or hindrance. The capitulation, however, of Turkey, the disruption of Russia, and the new situation created by reason of the victorious ending of this war, impose obligations on the allied powers and the United States which they cannot shirk, or in any way avoid, if they wish to be true to their oft-proclaimed declarations regarding Armenia. The era of reforms has passed away. Turkey cannot be patched up by the introduction of reforms in what remains of the Turkish Empire. That remedy must 619 620 THE ARMENIAN HERALD not be tried, for what is needed in the Turkish Empire is not reform but amputation. Arabia has already proclaimed her independence, and an Arabian state will be a reality shortly. Mesopotamia is to be liber ated completely from the Turkish yoke. Palestine will become a free Jewish state. Syria will receive an administration free from the Turk ish curse, and the districts Greek in population of Ionia are about to be brought into union with their mother country, Greece. The Turks should be relegated to the interior of Asia Minor, a country covering an area of about three hundred thousand square kilometers, and Armenia should receive the benefits of entire freedom and national independence. Armenia, like Poland, claims to be one and indivisible, and the future Armenian state should by right include Russian, Persian and Turkish Armenia, from the Caucasus to the Straits of Alexandretta.
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