Bayard Dodge to Director, Aleppo, on Negotiating with French for the Marash and Urfa Orphan Evacuation, 1921

Item Detail

Inter-office Correspondence: Managing Director to Director Aleppo, Subject: Armenian Orphans

Context

NER inter-office letter, signed by B. Dodge (Bayard Dodge, NER Managing Director, Beirut), to the NER Director, Aleppo. Records Dodge's debriefing from a confidential conversation with Robert de Caix, Acting Governor of French-occupied Syria, about whether NER could move approximately 1,000 orphans from Marash and 700 from Urfa into Syria before the Franco-Turkish peace negotiations cut off access. Forwarded under cover by Charles V. Vickrey marked "Do not quote or publish without permission."