ABSTRACT
The turning point occurred at the interim conference in Vienna in 1923, pending the Tenth Congress that had been postponed to the winter of 1924-1925. Of valuable evidence are the recorded difficulties that Shahan Natali had with the other leaders, both over finance and over organization and policy. All of his writings reflect his bitterness at feeling himself the target of rumors of all sorts about the exorbitant cost of his "double" in Berlin. Jemal Pasha is the only one who tried to dissociate himself entirely from the measures taken against the Armenians during the war. The reform plan that the Powers then attempted to impose on Armenians taking advantage of their weakness aimed, in fact, at placing the eastern vilayets under Russian protection and Arabian provinces under Franco-British control. Dzaghigian was one of the first inhabitants of these mountain villages to join the Dashnak party in 1908, with the idea of transforming their Catholic mentality into national consciousness.
