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Soviet Russia. Bearing in mind the political and military dialogues between the Major Powers,which did not seem to care about Armenia’s future, not least France was benevolent towardsTurkey in order to counteract the British influence in Middle East. Therefore, the mandate powerover Armenia, offered by the League of Nations to a country in Scandinavia and Sweden was of aspecial character, one which Sweden should cherish. The offered responsibility, wrote Beskow:Honoured us highly, since it was about a mandate full of difficulties and without prospects ofprofits, for which reason no one else wanted it. In that matter we could not do anything. But thatno, which was said then, shall be turned into a yes. 311The political leadership in Sweden would soon proof that they did not quite share his view.During the coming years, Wallenberg continued his negative tone towards the Armenians andthe Armenian question. He dismissed the claims that there were any Armenians in Turkey, whatso ever. To verify that there was no Armenian community in Turkey, Wallenberg cites anArmenian lawyer, who said: “We are Turks and wish to remain that way.” 312 Later Wallenbergasserts that the Armenians do not have a future anyhow. In Turkey, practically all “so-calledArmenians speak Turkish,” and “in Soviet Union they will surely be russified.” 313 Furthermore,he claimed that the strive for creating an independent Armenia was entirely a desire of DiasporaArmenians, and had no anchorage what so ever among Armenians in Armenia. In this regard hecompared the Armenian exile organisations with the Zionist movement, of which he spokeutterly negative. 314 In a twelve pages long report, on April 19, Wallenberg reported in detail aboutthe situation in Turkey. Among other things, he made it clear that the Armenians and the Greekshave come to realise that simply belonging to the Christian faith of Armenian or Greek rite “doesnot justify to call oneself an Armenian or a Greek…when they have the same language andfatherland as their Muslim countrymen.” It is interesting to note that continuing his reports herefers to the “Armenians” (put in quotation marks in his text) as if the name was nothing but aninvented term. 315On October 19, Wallenberg wrote yet another letter, this time recommending that if Sweden,contrary to what had been expectated, would be asked to be a guarantor for a temporarygovernment in Cilicia, Sweden should, according to Wallenberg, decline for the same reasons ashe had stated in regard to the suggestion concerning the mandate power. 316 On November 15,the economic values of a close relation with Constantinople were made further clear, whenWallenberg dispatched a four page report, analysing the development in the Black Sea region, in311 Beskow, 1921, p. 11.312 RA, UD, nr. 69, March 17, 1921.313 RA, UD, nr. 69, March 17, 1921.314 RA, UD, nr. 69, March 17, 1921. Richard Hovannisian’s excellent and descriptive work, Armenia on theRoad to Independence, 1918, however, gives a very different image than that depicted by Wallenberg. SeeHovannisian 1967.315 RA, UD, nr. 91, April 19, 1921.316 RA, UD, nr. 234, October 19, 1921.68