Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greeks in Asia Minor on August 28, of last year. On September 9, Turkish troops entered Smyrna after the Greek army had evacuated the town. September 29, the principal Allied Powers issued a note inviting Turkey to a conference at Lausanne. Another peace egg was laid, and again Turkey refused to hatch it. The present conference is then a peace conference between the Allied and Associated Powers and Turkey on the one hand and Greece and Turkey on the other. The United States is acting separately...
...educational and business methods. Speaking through an interpreter in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Dr. Fuad who was formerly Turkish Minister of Health and Child Welfare, described the work being conducted by the Nationalist government along hygienic and educational lines. When asked to comment on affairs in Smyrna, Dr. Fuad said he had nothing to say on the subject...
Those Protestant missions which suffered such a severe check in the recent revival of Turkish nationalism are again taking heart. Robert College and the Women's College at Constantinople are open, though carrying on with a reduced student body. The International College at Smyrna has just been reopened. The buildings were rifled, but not burned. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Congregational) has no disposition to withdraw from the Turkish Empire, despite its dangers and handicaps...
...Allied Powers were willing to grant her. In this Treaty Greece was given practically the whole of western Thrace and a large stretch of land in Asia Minor. On August 28 last year the Turks started their attack on the Greeks, and on September 9 Turkish troops entered Smyrna after the Greek army had left. France, Italy, and Britain on September 29 issued a note to Turkey inviting her to participate in a conference at Lausanne. The Allies greatly modified their terms for a peace understanding with Turkey, but despite that the conference adjourned. After the presentation of a treaty...
...Europe have lost their homes in the war? If you will consider Asia Minor, it might almost be said that over 900 out of every 1000 students have lost their homes during the past six years. Last winter, in a cold rain, we picked up on the quay at Smyrna 40 students, all of whom had known deportation and exile, the loss of home and loved ones, and who had now fled suddenly from St. Paul's College in Tarsus to Symrua because of the French evacuation, and the turning over of Cilicia once more to the Turks. Today...