Annie T. Allen worked for the Near East Relief for three years, traveling the Anatolian interior in all seasons. On her death, Admiral Mark Bristol, the American High Commissioner at Constantinople, issued an official statement praising her courage and endurance — the first such tribute his office had paid to any woman. The Constantinople staff cabled it to New York.
Context
Through the winter of 1921–22, Near East Relief faced a compounding crisis across Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the Levant: deportations of Armenians, typhus and mass death among refugees, and orphanages filling past capacity at Beirut, Tripoli, and Sidon. American donations were flagging and federal appropriations were being cut, forcing NER’s leaders to plead for funds even as they buried the dead.
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