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AMERICAN COMMITTEE
FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF ARMENIA
212 STUART STREET, BOSTON 16, MASS.
TELEPHONE
HANCOCK 6.2461
January 28, 1959
The Honorable Richard Nixon
Vice-President of the U.S.
Washington, D.C.
Sir:
The national revolt in Hungary gave the lie to a rather widely
accepted and defeatist opinion, often expressed with an apathetic
shrug of shoulders, that a successful uprising against Soviet Rule
is well-nigh impossible.
We think differently. For we know differently, not from Hungary
alone, but from Armenia.
For in that land, exactly 38 years ago, the Armenian nation,
which had been just sovietized, rose and almost bodily drove the
Red Armies out of Armenia.
The democratic and independent Republic of Armenia, proclaimed
two years earlier, on May 28, 1918, was reestablished. And not for
just a few days, mind you, sir, but for full three months. During
those critical and historic three months, when a small people, e-
maciated by war, epidemics, hunger and massacres, having overthrown
the Red Tyrant, appealed to the Free World for help, there was answer
none. Perhaps, the Free World was as yet innocent of any true know-
ledge of what that monster, the communist world conspiracy, really
was.
Then, the Republic fell. A small, ancient and noble people. And
the vultures returned in ecstasy. They demolished what was undestroyed
by war, butchered all intellectuals, often using pickaxes on poor,
defenseless women and children whose only crime was to be related to
the anti-communist intellectual elite, and reduced Armenia to a lost
land of forced labor, wherefrom even the wail and weeping of dying
souls was stifled.
But the Armenians never forgot.
They remember today. In Armenia. And outside of Armenia, wherever
a cluster of them congregates. And they celebrate that glorious day
of February 18, 1921, when the invincible inner force of Armenians
drevethe bolsheviks from the sacred soil of Armenia, and on it raised
the Armenian national tricolor, of red, blue, gold.
And so, in Boston this coming February 22, which is the day a
great man, G. Washington was born, the 38th Anniversary of the Armenian
Revolt against Soviet Rule will be celebrated at the John Hancock
Auditorium with Armenians congregating from the entire eastern seaboard
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
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