Համաշխարհային Բ. Պատերազմին Հայկական Բարձրաւանդակը Գրաւելու Չգործադրուած Ծրագիր Մը
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1973
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On June 22, 1941, Germany implemented the Operation Barbarossa attacking the Soviet Union. Four days before Germany and Turkey had signed up a non-aggression and friendship pact which invalidated the Turco-Soviet agreement of December 17, 1929. Although Turkey had promised to keep her neutrality in the Russo-German war, she virtually sided with Germany. The Turkish press kindled with pan-Turanian sentiments, meanwhile expressing hope that Turkey would have territorial gains at the expense of the Soviet Union. Exploiting the Turkish expectations, Germany promised Turkey Soviet lands if she joined the Axis. On the eve of the fall of Kiev at the hands of German forces, the Soviet Union requested that England send military aid to Caucasus via Persia, before the Donetz basin was lost to the Germans, for, once Caucasus fell, as a result, the Turks would no more keep their neutrality, While London turned down the Soviet plea, on the one hand, the Mid- Asiatic Bureau of the General Headquarters of the British Middle East Forces, in Cairo, on the other hand, prepared a «Top Secret» military plan, suggesting the immediate occupation of the Armenian Plateau (Kars-Erzerum-Bayazid) by Allied forces, should Germany attack Caucacus or Turkey allow the Germans free passage to Caucasus. The plan bore the signature of Lt. Col. Adrian Simpson, G.S., and it was prepared on September 14, 1941. But when it reached London on October 28th of the same year, the plan was considered an anachronism by the Foreign Office.
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Մսըրլեան, Զ., «Համաշխարհային Բ. Պատերազմին Հայկական Բարձրաւանդակը Գրաւելու Չգործադրուած Ծրագիր Մը», Հայկազեան Հայագիտական Հանդէս, 1973, Պէյրութ, 49-65