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...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...
Professor Harlow has been for ten years professor of sociology and chaplain at International College, Smyrna, an American Institute recently destroyed by the Turks. He is now on a lecture tour, and spoke at Phillips Brooks House recently...
...homeless people as wander today seeking a place where they may lay their heads. Can we say that, in this so called "new world", womanhood and childhood is more respected and more loved? I fear not. The public reads great figures telling of the number of women outraged in Smyrna, of the countless orphans driven into exile or thrown into the waters of the harbor--and what does it mean...
...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...
Describing vividly the massacres and outrages which have occurred since the War in the Near East under Turkish rule, Professor S. R. Harlow '08, of International College, Smyrna, made a strong plea for American aid in the problems of Asia Minor. About 150 members of the University were present at the speech, which was delivered at Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Graduate School Society...