Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thursday, March 31, Henry W. Morgenthau, late American Ambassador to Turkey, will speak at the Union on the Near Eastern Question...
...Morgenthau was appointed in 1913 to represent the United States at Constantinople, and from 1914 to 1916 was in charge of the interests in Turkey of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Switzerland and Montenegro. In 1919 he served as a member of the mission, appointed by President Wilson in June of that year, for investigating conditions in Poland. Mr. Morgenthau was an incorporator of the American National Red Cross, is Vice-Chairman of the Near East Relief Commission and a director of the Institute of International Education. His book, "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story", which first appeared in installments...
...place stress upon the system now in force of training language students at Government expense for service in the Diplomatic and Consular branches of the Foreign Service in China and Japan. About fifteen years ago, the Government provided for the establishment of an interpreter corps in China, Japan and Turkey in order that it might have available for its own service men trained in the knowledge of the languages, institutions and conditions of these countries...
...ability of Premier Venizelos, granted to Greece territory which raised that country to a position unforeseen ten years ago. The fall of the Venizelos ministry and the return to power of King Constantine has aroused agitation for the revision of the Treaty of Sevres between the Allies and Turkey. This movement finds favor with three Mediterranean peoples: Italy has from the beginning been wary of the rise of her new neighbor on the inland sea, and has cast longing eyes at the recent acquisitions of Greece. France--the traditional friend of the Turk--misses the privileges granted to her financiers...
...August, 1919, he went to Turkey to study the work of the Syrian Protestant College and Robert College, of which he is now executive secretary...