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Re: Writers
ENEMY ACTION************************During the Clinton administration and in a speech delivered in the White House to an Armenian delegation there was a paragraph that said: "In the words of the great Armenian poet Puzant Granian…"-- there followed a passage from MY LAND, MY PEOPLE which I had co-translated with the author in 1977. But whereas the Tashnag papers printed the President’s speech in its entirety, the Ramgavar papers deleted any reference to Granian (who happenms to be a Tashnag). *On another occasion, when I published an interview with Puzant Granian, both Granian and I were torn to shreds by an Ramgavar intellectual (if you will forgive the oxymoron). *When Granian replied with a letter to the editor, his reply was drastically edited and abridged by the "chezok" (non-partisan editor whose salary was paid by the AGBU(sometimes also referred to as KGBU)*In 1980 I was commissioned by AGBUto edit an anthology titled ARMENIA OBSERVED, in which I included a short chapter from Granian’s MY LAND, MY PEOPLE. This chapter was deleted without notice. *There is a military maxim that says: "If something goes wrong once, it is an accident; if twice, it is a coincidence; if three times, it is enemy action." *It is to be noted that both Granian’s book and my interview were devoid of any ideological content. #
ENEMY ACTION************************During the Clinton administration and in a speech delivered in the White House to an Armenian delegation there was a paragraph that said: "In the words of the great Armenian poet Puzant Granian…"-- there followed a passage from MY LAND, MY PEOPLE which I had co-translated with the author in 1977. But whereas the Tashnag papers printed the President’s speech in its entirety, the Ramgavar papers deleted any reference to Granian (who happenms to be a Tashnag). *On another occasion, when I published an interview with Puzant Granian, both Granian and I were torn to shreds by an Ramgavar intellectual (if you will forgive the oxymoron). *When Granian replied with a letter to the editor, his reply was drastically edited and abridged by the "chezok" (non-partisan editor whose salary was paid by the AGBU(sometimes also referred to as KGBU)*In 1980 I was commissioned by AGBUto edit an anthology titled ARMENIA OBSERVED, in which I included a short chapter from Granian’s MY LAND, MY PEOPLE. This chapter was deleted without notice. *There is a military maxim that says: "If something goes wrong once, it is an accident; if twice, it is a coincidence; if three times, it is enemy action." *It is to be noted that both Granian’s book and my interview were devoid of any ideological content. #
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