71.Robert Arnoux, Arménie 1947. Les naufragés de la terre promise, Paris, 2004, p. 13.
72.Cardinal Agajanian, the Armenian Catholic Patriarch, was one of the few Armenian leaders publicly to oppose the “repatriation” project from the moment it was announced.
73.“Rapport de police sur la 'colonie arménienne'” [Police report on the 'Armenian colony'], p. 5, Archives of the Paris Police Department, BA 1681. Originally made up of French Armenians of all political tendencies, the Armenian National Front, founded as an underground organization in 1941, was part of the Résistance, the arrmed French resistance movement against the Nazi occupation.
74.French Interior Ministry, report of 29 March 1946 (Paris) to the French Foreign Ministry, Office du Levant 1920-1945: Généralités 1944-1952, vol. 8, AFFM.
75.James Mandalian, “The 151 Repatriates from Armenia,” Armenian Review, Spring/April 1951, 4/1, no. 13, p. 90.
76.Ibid., pp. 14-15; “Rapport de police sur la 'colonie arménienne,'” op. cit., p. 6.
77.Léon Guerdan, Entry of 4 June 1946, Diary, vol. 8, 9 April 1946 - 7 July 1947, Léon Guerdan's Personal Papers, Bibl. Nubar.
78.Guerdan, Entry of 25 April 1947, op. cit.
79.Committee for Armenian Refugees and Armenian Refugee Council, Letter of 18 May 1945 to French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Office du Levant 1944-1965: Généralités 1944-1952, vol. 53, AFFM. Tchobanian was a writer and Ramgavar leader. Samuelian was an editorialist for the Paris daily Haratch.
80.Arshag Karagheusian, “Le rapatriement et la souscription d'un million de dollars,” 6 March 1946, Circulars of the New York Central Board, 1946-1962, AGBU Archives/Cairo; “General Reports and Financial Statments for the Years 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949,” op. cit., p. 44.
81.“General Reports and Financial Statements for the Years 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949,” op. cit., p. 48.
82.AGBU Circular of July 1946 signed by Léon Guerdan in New York, Circulars of the New York Central Board, 1946-1962, op. cit.
83.Circular no. 9 of 14 October 1946 signed by Léon Guerdan in New York, Circulars of the New York Central Board, 1946-1962, op. cit.
84.AGBU Circular of 9 October 1946 signed by Léon Guerdan in New York, Circulars of the New York Central Board, 1946-1962, op. cit.
85.Anon., Պուլկարիոյ Ներգաղթը [The repatriation from Bulgaria], Hoosharar, 33/12, 1 December 1946, p. 347.
86.Central Committee for Assisting Armenian Immigrants from Iran, Report no. 2354 of 3 April 1947, Teheran, Teheran District Committee (1946-1952), AGBU Archives/Cairo; AGBU District Committee of Iran, Letter no. 143 of 26 November 1946 from Teheran to the Executive Committee of Egypt, AGBU Archives/Cairo.