With the Allied withdrawal from Constantinople expected and the orphans in NER’s care exposed, W. W. Peet, Caleb Gates, and H. C. Jaquith met Admiral Bristol to decide what could be done for them. They agreed to seek permission to bring 5,000 Armenian children to the United States aboard the chartered steamship New York. The cable was marked confidential and withheld from publication.
Context
In September 1922, Turkish nationalist forces retook Smyrna and the city burned; hundreds of thousands of Greek and Armenian refugees were driven onto the quays. Near East Relief, working alongside U.S. Navy destroyers under Admiral Bristol, ran the relief and evacuation, and the crisis spread to the forced evacuation of Eastern Thrace. NER cabled New York almost daily and turned the reports into public appeals; these cables are those dispatches.
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