87.Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (hereafter SAE), vol. 8, Yerevan 1980, p. 208. The figures for 1946 given by AGBU sources differ slightly, showing 20,526 people from Iran, 19,414 from Syria and Lebanon, 5,100 from Greece, and 4,352 from Bulgaria, or a total of 50,238 (Circular no. 9 signed by Léon Guerdan, op. cit.); “General Reports and Financial Accounts for the Years 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949,” op. cit., p. 49.
88.“General Reports and Financial Statements for the Years 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949,” op. cit., p. 48.
89.AGBU Circular no. 6 of 27 June 1946 signed by Vahan Malezian in New York, Circulars of the New York Central Board, 1946-1962, op. cit.
90.District Committee of Egypt, Letter of 12 June 1946 from Cairo to the District Committee of Lebanon in Bei-rut, Correspondence emanating from the District Committee of Egypt, April 1945-August 1946, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
91.District Committee of Egypt, Letter of 16 September 1947 from Cairo to the New York Central Board, Correspond-ence of the New York Central Board, April 1947-October 1949, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
92.Anon., Ներգաղթի Շարժումը [The repatriation movement], Hoosharar, 34/15, 15 December 1947, p. 280.
93.Ibid.
94.Anon., Զեկոյց Հ.Բ.Ը.Միութեան, թիւ 18 [Circular no. 181 to the AGBU], 23 December 1947, Miutyun, no. 219, 15 January 1948, p. 40; “General Reports and Financial Accounts for the Years 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949,” op. cit., p. 112. According to the SAE, vol. 8, p. 208, a total of 35,401 people were “repatriated” in 1947.
95.SAE, vol. 8, p. 208; “General Reports and Financial Statements for the Years 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949,” op. cit., p. 112.
96.The Parekordzagan is the AGBU.
97.District Committee of Egypt, Tele-gram of 25 June 1946 from Cairo to the New York Central Board, Correspond-ence emanating from the District Committee of Egypt, April 1945-August 1946, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
98.District Committee of Egypt, Letters of 9 and 10 July 1946 from Cairo to the New York Central Board, Correspond-ence emanating from the District Committee of Egypt, April 1945-August 1946, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
99.District Committee of Egypt, Letter 27 July 1946 from Cairo to the New York Central Board, Correspondence emanating from the District Committee of Egypt, April 1945-August 1946, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
100.District Committee of Egypt, Letters of 17 September 1946 from Cairo to the New York Central Board, Correspond-ence emanating from the District Committee of Egypt, April 1945-August 1946, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
101.District Committee of Iran, Letter no. 65 of 10 June 1947 from Teheran to the District Committee of Egypt, District Committee of Iran, 1946-1952, AGBU Archives/Cairo.