NOTES ON THE RAMGAVAR PARTY IN BEIRUT

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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The Ra ;avt , Party in Beirut is split into left and right wings. Right w ng
leaders gather in the Zarelh P7ubar Club, belonging to the benevolent
society, Parogcaganp in Bab Tdris o These leaders are Kranian, I.iegerdicb
T.11..serlian.9 Sisak Varjabetiang and his brothers, a doctor;, -
Left vying loaders, vaho gather in the Toke as Cultural Ilome, include the
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I irach Setrakian a lavayer;
Kerson Aliaronian, a very active party member;
Paronak T ovramssian (Tonwsian), also an active member;
Sarkis Abdal.iar,-., who uses the pen name "Vehe Vahiann in
his literary pamper, Art and.
ilai gashsn Uzunian
Two other important leaders, Liikael llatanians a man in his sixties ,0 and '
Pu t Yeg hiyaq? s' are neuutralo The attitude of a third, Ilaratilm I{ali jinn,
J .q ccartain, but he is probably left vying, source states
4. According to sources the former deputy$ IIrach Shane ian, was not previously
considered to be a Rangavar, but he is now thought to be in the Party on,
the basis that Shan1.1..an went in a delegation of four, including Natanian,
K . k Ilinassiaa,, and another Ra gavar leader, to pay a courtesy call
on Cardinal Aghajanian on the Armenian Catholic Christ a
5. Dr. Yervant Liakarian has recently moved to Beirut from Dam- scus, where
he was the most important of the Rangavar leaders after LLi1ran Der-Stepanian?
Ag iob Davldian, an engineer from the Sc-mjak of A.lexandretta, is also a
:p: vm nont Ramgavar o Harutiun K zan jian, Onother engineer, is a Party
rac?er,, but not a prominent one, source asserts,,
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