The Relief Organization engaged in an eight-year policy of vilifying Turks, from 1915 to 1923.
Professor Justin McCarthy
Prof. McCarthy tells us more about the Near East Relief
President Woodrow Wilson concurred and also encouraged the formation of the organization known as Near East Relief, chartered by an Act of Congress, which contributed over $113,000,000 from 1915 to 1930 to aid Armenian survivors. (Peter Balakian wrote in "The Burning Tigris" the amount would be worth around one billion dollars today. In an interview, he claimed $2.5 billion. Here is another example of half- Balaked numbers.)
The Armenian Refugees (Lord Mayor's) Fund was the smaller counterpart charity set up in Great Britain.
Holdwater, here: When I started this page, it was really to highlight the wonderful photographs I discovered of the period, and I confused the goings-on with the Near East Relief (although some of the documentation is relief-oriented.) The Near East Relief issue deserves a much better page exploring what lay behind it, and so far this is not it. However, I will be adding more direct Near East Relief information, as such comes my way.
For example:
Here is how an American colonel reacted, when he was the High Commissioner for Relief... which I presume was associated with the Near East Relief. (In this other report, where the colonel's reaction is equally fierce, it's said he was with the Red Cross.)
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