Word: smyrna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remainder of the schedule includes various forms of entertainment. On November 23 the Graduate Schools Society, in conjunction with the Radcliffe Graduate Society, will hold an informal dance at 8.15 o'clock in Agassiz House. On December 5 Professor L. R. Harlow of the International College of Smyrna will give an illustrated talk on "Conditions today in the Near East", and on December 13, Phillips Brooks' Birthday, the Association has arranged for a meeting to be held at 7.30 o'clock in Peabody Hall. Bishop C. L. Slattery '91 and Professor Francis Peabody will speak on their associations with Phillips...
...civilized world was shocked the other day when it received the news of the massacres and burning of Smyrna by the Turks under the very eyes and cannon of the warships of the most powerful countries in the world. A Christian population of a million or more--all that has remained after the centuries' old oppression by the Turks--belonging to a progressive race established in Asia Minor since time immemorial, that has rendered invaluable services to literature, civilization, and Christianity, is being exterminated or exiled from their country which gave the world Homer, Euclid, Herodotus and other masters...
...provisions of the treaty, feeling the inheritance of Alexander lay within their reach, as legitimate recompense for their efforts in the cause of peace. Severely repulsed, in a way that would have caused Alexander to turn in his grave, by the now fully roused Kemalists, they fell back on Smyrna, which in turn they evacuated to the advancing Turks. At this point the "strong arm squad" passes out of the picture, absorbed in mutinying against its chief...
...Dead in Smyrna Put at 250,000" was the newspaper announcement based on the cabled report of Mark O. Prentiss of the American Near East Relief. Yet the people of this country have not been particularly interested; most of them have, and are, giving more attention to lurid accounts of local murder cases than to the signs of the times. That there should be such an apathy toward the happenings in the Near East, or anywhere outside the gates of our own cities, is deplorable. The world has reached a stage where all sections are coming into close contact...
...concealed rather carefully. It appears that Montagu, regarding the Moslem element as the dominating force in India, published a few days ago a memorandum of the Indian Government which explained the demands made by the Kaliphat, or Moslem movement; including the restoration to the Turk of Constantinople, Thrace, and Smyrna, and the submission of the holy places of Islam--Jerusalem and Mecca--to the authority of the Sultan. The publication of such demands just before the Near East Conference to discuss Turkey's position was regarded all over England as a grave diplomatic blunder; and the demands themselves were looked...