ted, though not in
the manner of the deportations at which he himself so often assisted.

The Armenians who will thus be reinstated within the boundaries of their
own territory, will be practically penniless and without any of the
means or paraphernalia of life, and the necessary outlay on supplies for
them, and the cost of their rehabilitation would naturally fall on the
protecting Power. They will, however, be free from the taxes they have
hitherto paid to the Turks, and it should not be difficult for them by
means of taxes far less oppressive, to pay an adequate interest on the
moneys expended on them. These would thus take the form of a very small
loan, the whole of which could easily be repaid by the Armenians in the
course of a generation or so. Once back on their own soil, and free from
Turkish tyranny and the possibility of it, they are bound to prosper,
even as they have prospered hitherto in spite of oppressions and
massacres up till the year 1915, when, as we have seen, the liberal and
progressive Nationalists organised and executed the extermination from
which so few escaped.

It is hardly necessary to point out who the protecting Power would be in
the case of the repatriated Armenians, for none but Russia is either
desirable or possible. With one side along the Russian frontier of
Trans-Caucasia, the New Armenia necessarily falls into the sphere of
Russian influence.

It has been suggested that not only Armenia proper, but part of Cilicia
should also become a district of the repatriated Armenians, with an
outlet to the sea. But while it is true that complete compensation would
demand this, since Zeitun and other districts in Cilicia were almost
pure Armenian settlements, I cannot think that such a restoration is
desirable. For, in the first place, the extermination of the Zeitunlis
(as carried out by Jemal the Great) was practically complete. All the
men were slaughtered, and it does not seem likely that any of the women
and girls who were deported reached the 'agricultural colony' of
Deir-el-Zor in the Arabian desert. It is therefore difficult to see of
whom the repatriation would consist. In the second place, the New
Armenia will be for several generations to come of an area more than
ample for all the Armenians who have survived the flight into Russia,
and it obviously will give them the best chance of corporate prosperity,
if the whole of them are repatriated in a compact body rather than that
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