95.Minutes of the Central Board Meetings, 119th meeting, 22 June 1928, f° 114, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
96. Melkonian, The AGBU in Soviet Armenia, op. cit., p. 173.
97. Ashot Hovhannisian, Գաղութահայ խնդիրներ [Diasporan Armenian problems], Yerevan, 1925, p. 22.
98. Ibid., p. 21.
99. Minutes of the Central Board Meetings, 136th meeting, 6 February 1929, f° 221, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
100. Minutes of the Central Board Meeting of 19 April 1933, op. cit., f° 1391.
101. Ibid.
102. This is one clear indication that the funds raised for the Nubarashen project were often diverted to other ends. A few concrete examples will show how common the practice was. In December 1932, the Armenian Council of Commissars decided to acquire four Fords; as the official memorandum sent to Haygaz Karageuzian makes plain, the cost of the automobiles was to be charged to the Nubarashen fund. The very same day, the Union's representa-tive in Yerevan forwarded the Soviet lead-ers' order to Paris; Paris, in its turn, transmitted it to the Union's New York committee, which duly processed the order in the next few days. The cars were very rapidly expedited to Yerevan by way of Batum. They were obviously not for the construction site at Nubarashen, since the order was for three Ford convertibles and a “Ford Lux sedan” reserved, we have every reason to believe, for the use of Armenia's Communist leaders. It goes without saying that this form of embezzlement did not escape the attention of the Union's officers, and it is plain that certain orders which Yerevan charged to the Nubarashen account were in fact intended for private use. But the central board preferred to close its eyes and process the orders without protest; the Union, which had gotten used to the
ways of the Soviet apparatchiks, probably regarded this kind of corruption as inherent in the situation and a gage of the success of its operations. (I. Karapetian, Secretary of the Council of commissars, note of 10 December 1932 from Yerevan to Haygaz Karageuzian; Karageuzian, telegram n° 328 of 10 December 1932 from Erevan to Malezian).
103. H. Karageuzian, letter no. 1083 of 26 August 1935 from Yerevan to V. Malezian, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
104. V. Malezian, letter of 6 December 1935 from Paris to H. Karageuzian, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
105. Minutes of the Central Board Meetings, 196th meeting, 6 February 1929, 3 December and 5 December 1930, f° 1095, Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris.
106. V. Malezian, “Calouste Gulbenk-ian’s term as president of the Union and the reason for his resignation,” Arev, 20 January 1960, Cairo (cited in Melkonian, The AGBU in Soviet Armenia, op. cit., pp. 100-101).
107.Dallakian, On the Resignation of K. Gulbenkian, op. cit., p. 48.
108. Ibid.
109. Melkonian, The AGBU in Soviet Armenia, op. cit., p. 103.
110. Minutes of the Central Board Meeting of 7 December 1932, op. cit., f° 1348.
111. Ibid.
112. Ibid., f° 1350.
113. Ibid., f° 1351.
114. Dallakian, On the Resignation of K. Gulbenkian, op. cit., p. 41.
115. Melkonian, The AGBU in Soviet Armenia, op. cit., pp. 120-185.