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[Illustration: DR. G. PASDERMADJIAN (Armen Garo)]
Ex-Deputy from Erzeroum in the Ottoman Parliament Former Commander of the Second Battalion of the Armenian Volunteers on the Caucasian Front Representative in America of Armenian National Council of the Caucasus.
With an Introduction by George Nasmyth, Ph. D.
Former President of the Central Committee of the International Federation of Students Secretary of the Massachusetts Joint Committee for a League of Free Nations
Written at Washington, D. C., October, 1918. All Rights Reserved
The Blanchard Printing Co. Boston Massachusetts.
TO THOSE WHO WERE MARTYRED AND TO THOSE WHO DIED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE FOR THE LIBERATION OF ARMENIA
TURKISH AND RUSSIAN PROPOSALS TO THE ARMENIANS IN 1914 15
MILITARY SERVICES RENDERED BY THE ARMENIANS ON THE CAUCASIAN FRONT 18
ARMENIAN RESISTANCE TO THE TURKISH MASSACRES 24
ATTITUDE OF RUSSIAN CZARISM TOWARD THE ARMENIANS 28
RÔLE PLAYED BY THE ARMENIANS IN THE CAUCASUS AFTER THE RUSSIAN COLLAPSE 34
ARMENIA'S CO-OPERATION WITH THE ALLIES ON OTHER FRONTS 41
Armenia has become a touchstone of victory in the great war for freedom and humanity.
If Armenia is granted national independence it will mean that in the making of the peace treaty the forces of democracy and human progress have triumphed over the forces of imperialism and short-sighted reaction. It will mean that in the future the rights of the small nations are to be recognized as well as those of the great. It will mean that international justice is to be the foundation of the new world order. The triumph of the principle that is involved will mean that the war has been won because its moral aims have been achieved.