Minutes of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, October 1915 – October 1919

Context

Founding minutes of the organization that became Near East Relief. A foreword recounts how Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s September 1915 cablegram from Constantinople, reporting the unfolding Armenian Genocide, prompted Cleveland H. Dodge to convene James L. Barton, Charles Crane, Samuel T. Dutton, John R. Mott, Stephen Wise, and others at 99 John Street, New York. The volume records the committee’s deliberations and appropriations during the genocide and the relief response across Anatolia, Syria, the Caucasus, and Persia.