22.Stanislas Ostrorog, French plenipotentiary p. i. and ambassador-at-large to the Levant, Letter of 30 April 1945 to French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Syrie-Liban (1944-1952), Levant 1944-1965, Archives of the French Foreign Ministry (hereafter AFFM), vol. 296.
23.Ibid.
24.Ibid.
25.Ibid.
26.Henri de Bourdeille, French consul general in Aleppo, Letter of 13 July 1951 to Jean du Boisberranger, French chargé d'affaires in Damascus, Syrie-Liban (1944-1952), Levant 1944-1965, AFFM, vol. 296.
27.Ibid.
28.Minutes of the Meetings of the District Committee of Lebanon, August 1953, nos. 28-102, AGBU Archives/ Cairo.
29.Bahry, Chronologie, op. cit. Bahry indicates that the former president of the European Executive Board, Dr. Cololian, died on 7 September 1956.
30.Ibid.
31.Ibid.
32.Ibid.
33.Notes (47 pages) on the European Regional Board Meeting, B. 40/5, Bibliothèque Nubar.
34.Minutes of the General Assembly of 15 April 1962, ibid., p. 7.
35.Bahry, Chronologie, op. cit.
36.Ibid. Bahry mentions, in particular, a January 1966 meeting with the “dissidents.” He also notes that Vahan Malezian died in Nice on 4 May 1967. A 19 October 1962
37.letter from Alex Manoogian to Yervant Hussissian provides a rather good summary of the measures that the president of the AGBU had to take to quash the fronde in Paris. European Regional Board, B. 40/5, Bibliothèque Nubar.
38.Bahry, Chronologie, op. cit.
39.Ibid.
40.The many letters on file in the AGBU Central archives in Cairo, especially Djanig Tchaker's correspondence with the New York head office, clearly indicate the problems that the Cairo Regional Board had to confront after the establishment of a revolutionary regime. Our interview with Berdj Terzian indicates that, over a period of several decades, the legal reforms and nationalizations carried out by the regime gradually paralyzed the Board’s work.
41.Karlen Dallakian, Հուշապատում (Memoirs), Yerevan, 1998, pp. 93-95. Dallakian reports that none other than Michael Suslov, the Politbureau's chief ideologue, ratified the election of Vazken I.
42.Ibid., pp. 66-67.
43.Dallakian points out that the Catholicos could not travel outside the USSR without authorization from the CPSU's Central Committee (ibid., p. 94). He also notes that Vazken's first bull was submitted to the Committee for Church Affairs (ibid., pp. 104-105).
44.Hoosharar-Miutyune, 89/1, June 2001, p. 17.