DEFENSE COUNCIL OF WESTERN ARMENIA HOLDS COMMEMORATIVE EVENT DEDICATED TO WOODROW WILSON

Noyan Tapan
Apr 2, 2009

GLENDALE, APRIL 2, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Defense
Council of Western Armenia, the founders of which are the heirs of
deported Armenians from Van, Bitlis, Erzrum and Trabizond, will hold
a commemorative event celebrating the Pursuit of the Perpetual Peace
by Woodrow Wilson. A packed auditorium is expected at the Glendale
Central Library. Representatives of Armenian Churches will be in
attendance, as well as the Consul General of the Republic of Armenia,
Mr. Grigor Hovanissian.

Mr. Donald Wilson Bush, great great-grandson of the late president
Woodrow Wilson will provide keynote address. Mr. Bush will be joined
by Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum curator, Mr. Jarod
Kearney, who will discuss Wilson’s pursuit of perpetual peace.

President Wilson, the arbitrator of the Sevres Treaty of 1920, drew
the map for a new independent western Armenia with a territory of
40,000 square miles, including lands that until today have fallen
inside the borders of neighboring Turkey.