Author: Zaven Messerlian

Printed: Beirut, 2023

PREFACE:

Soon after my graduation with an MA in Middle Eastern History in 1963, whenever I noticed any wrong facts about Armenia and her history, the Armenian Genocide, I started to write letters to authors, editors, or publishers and later to institutions, statesmen and political leaders. In 1972 when I had access to the British Public Record Office archives, I saw letters addressed to government leaders and the Foreign Office remarks on them and learnt much from there.

Over the years I wrote many letters to personalities holding high offices in their countries and organizations. Many replied, some others did not. As these correspondence is not of a personal nature and may interest students of Armenian History, I decided on their publication in a book compiling all my articles in Armenian or English published in the Haigazian Armenological Review, The Armenian Reporter and Gamar, an Armenian periodical, where I had given these documents and comments. The articles published in Armenian have been translated for publication in this book by the present author. -- Zaven Messerlian