45.K. Տ. Վազգեն Ա Հայրապետի երկրորդ ուղեվորությունը, Echmiadzin, 1963, p. 20. In a preliminary declaration at a New York press conference on 26 May, the Catholicos made no secret of the fact that “one of the objectives of his voyage was to reestablish unity and peace in the Church.” Ibid., p. 22.
46.Ibid., pp. 28-29.
47.Ibid., p. 33.
48.Ibid., pp. 50-51.
49.Ibid., pp. 63-65.
50.Ibid., pp. 124-126.
51.Ibid., pp. 297-298.
52.Dallakian, op. cit., pp. 66-67.
53.Ibid., pp. 113-114.
54.Ibid.
55.Ibid., p. 115. Tovmassian was a teacher; Aharonian was editor-in-chief of the Lebanese daily Zartonk.
56.Edward Melkonian, Պատմություն Հայ Բարեգործական Ընդհանուր Միության [History of the Armenian General Benevolent Union], Yerevan, 2005, p. 438.
57.Minutes of the 9 February 1945 AGBU Central Board Meeting, Paris, Bibl. Nubar.
58.Vahan Malezian, Report no. 2 of 26 March 1946, New York, ՀԲԸՄ, Ընդհանուր տեղեկագիրներ և հաշուեկշիռներ 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 տարեշրջաններու [AGBU, General reports and financial statements for the years 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949], Paris, p. 42, Circulars of the New York Central Board, 1946-1962, AGBU Archives/ Cairo.
59.ՀԲԸՄ, Ընդհանուր տեղեկագիր և հաշուեկշիռ 35-40րդ տարեշրջանի (1940-1945) [AGBU, General report and
60.financial statement for the 35th to the 40th annual period, 1940-1945], Paris, p. 24.
61.Ibid., pp. 24-25.
62.Claire Mouradian, De Staline à Gorbatchev. Histoire d’une république soviétique, l’Arménie, Paris, 1990, p. 50.
63.“Rapport général du Conseil central de l'Union, année 1945” [General report of the AGBU Central Board for 1945], p. 14, Circulars of the New York Central Board, 1946-1962, AGBU Archives/ Cairo.
64.General Report and Financial Account for 1940-1945, op. cit., p. 25.
65.Minutes of the 2 March 1945 Paris Committee Meeting, Bibl. Nubar.
66.Minutes of the 27 April 1945 Paris Committee Meeting, Bibl. Nubar.
67.With this election, Kevork VI Chorekjian became Catholicos in Echmiadzin.
68.“Rapport général du Conseil central de l'Union, année 1945,” op. cit., p. 14.
69.District Committee of Egypt, Letter of 27 July 1946 from Cairo to the New York Central Board, Correspondence ema-nating from the District Committee of Egypt, April 1945-August 1946, AGBU Archives/Cairo.
70.Paul Beynet, French plenipotentiary and ambassador-at-large to the Levant, Letter of 26 December 1945 from Beirut to French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Office du Levant 1920-1945: Généralités 1944-1952, vol. 8, AFFM.