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in this case, then it was the Ottomans, as they had not a
single warship at their disposal nor were they prepared
for an internal fight against their own Armenian citizens,
who had led not only a peaceful but also an extremely
prosperous life under their rule.
I f we seek evidence in W erfel's work for these facts we
have to read - unbelievable but a fact - those parts o f the
book, which do not appear in his book, at least not in the
latest English and French editions.
At any rate the Armenian mafia has already made I fine
job. Werfels "40 Days..." had, in their hands, to undergo
a true "purgatorium"... they clent the book from all pas­
sages which could create doubts at the reader or any historian.
Let us forget many o f the "minor" omittments, although
they are all typical and fit in a pattern to make W erfel's
statements as plausible as possible. If, for instance Werfel
goes to very far to describe Enver Pash as a kind o f trav-
estite who loves his female hands and his cufflinks more
than the words o f the great (falsificator) Pastor Lepsius,
they delete these words. But although typical, it is not
essential.
The truth behind the story is: Did the Armenians start a
civil war right in the days when the Russin army
advanced towards Van?
This is the point.
Now, carefully reading the words o f Franz Werfel
(translated from the original German edition) we receive
the inner message o f the falsifications Werfel had fallen
victim. He writes
about the preliminary victory o f the well equipped
Armenians from Musa Dagh:
"Therefore a war ending in defeat often means a set hack
o f such races fo r decades whereas other peoples less military-minded
are able to overcome military misfortune fa r
more easily and more productevely. But the most horrible
humilitation fo r a belligerent upper class is to be taught
in a bloody lesson by an "inner enemy", i. e. an inferior
m inority..."
Excuse me for this intermission but we hear now some­
thing so sentational that it has to be announced in a proper
way: "... i. e. an inferior minority oriented to trade, the
crafts, and education."
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The real power o f the Armenians: better education, motivation,
obligation, nation. A. C. Swinburne remarked, perhaps these or
similar pictures in mind a centurry ago: "Not with dreams but
with blood and with iron shall a nation be moulded at last."
What a tragic word, what a horible result...
And Werfel continues: "This upsets the whole purpose
life o f those taking such pride in their weapons, because
the honour o f the trade o f war is seriously challenged
when..." please, excuse me fo r a second interruption but
Werfel's wordsare too delightful...when a soft intellectual
race gives the professional heroes a sound thrashing - as
a spar-time activity so to speak."
It seems to me that the present occupation o f
Azerbaijanian territory (20% o f the country) the massacre
o f Khojaly and the expulsion o f one million Azeris
from their soil is also the work o f an ‘‘intellectual" race.