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American leaders adopt orphans as Cilicia's crisis grows. New Near East, Jun 1921.
Location
Alexandropol (Gyumri)
Year
1921
Item Detail
Insecurity returned to Cilicia and displacement continued across Syria, Palestine, and Anatolia. Near East Relief used prominent American sponsors and institutional statistics to hold public support for orphan care. This issue promotes child sponsorship through pledges by President and Mrs. Harding and others, and surveys 63 hospitals, 128 clinics, and 229 orphanages caring for 54,600 children. Reports from Syria, Palestine, Ismid, and Cilicia describe destroyed villages, refugee care, work to reunite families separated by war, and efforts to move from emergency aid toward agriculture and community recovery.
Context
The New Near East was Near East Relief's monthly publication that reported on the organization’s work and mobilized financial support from American readers. Its articles preserve evidence of field conditions and institutional decisions, but they frame that evidence through Near East Relief’s own appeals for support.
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Holding Institution
Rockefeller Archive Center
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External Link
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Attribution
Near East Foundation Collection, Rockefeller Archive Center
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Rights
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Document Contents
* “Chosen Executives of America Adopt Orphans of the Near East” announces one-year sponsorship pledges by President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding.
* “The Life of a Child” asks young Americans to earn money during the summer for Near East Relief.
* “French Soldiers” reports assistance to French prisoners held by Turkish Nationalists at Cesarea.
* “Erivan” surveys the city’s population, industries, markets, and public services.
* “Report to Congress and the New York Sun” summarizes Near East Relief’s annual report, including 63 hospitals, 128 clinics, and 229 orphanages with 54,600 children.
* “Wards of America” prints Bayard Dodge’s account of orphan care and family reunification in Syria and Palestine.
* “Bayard Dodge” records the former Beirut director’s work and departure from the region.
* “Devastation and Relief of Ain Ibi and Dibl” presents R. C. Byerly’s inspection of two villages damaged during uprisings against French rule.
* “A Near East Romance” recounts the wartime separation and reunion of Aranos Mooradian and Lusia Chakalian.
* “Those Who Turn to Us in Hope” estimates the number of Armenian girls held in Muslim households and appeals for rescue work.
* “The Green Hat” describes bathing and clothing 600 refugee children at Ismid.
* “Written in Blood” reports on the massacre of Greek and Armenian Christians at Cesarea.
* “The Precious Thing,” by Adelaide S. Dwight, prints a letter about an individual remittance sent through Near East Relief.


