The moral support given in Asia Minor was far beyond any valuation. At such a money valuation then, the aggregate value of the relief distribution is nearly $350,000. Geo. H. Pullman.
Reticent, constant and efficient, Clara Barton has won the confidence of every government under whose flag she has labored—as in the land of the Crescent and Scimitar—and has done honor to her native land. B. H. Warner.
No matter how far from home, how lone and desolate, the soldier knows the Red Cross for his own; the glazing eye can discern it and next to God or “Allah” it is his Saviour, the American Annie Laurie of the wounded soldier. Clara Barton.
There is, we are happy to believe, a warmth and an appreciation of the Red Cross that brings added honor to the country.
Clara Barton.
TURKEY—STATESMANSHIP OF PHILANTHROPY—ARMENIA
“Alone, bereft, forsaken, sick and heartbroken, without food, raiment or shelter, on the snow-piled mountain sides and along the smiling valleys they wander and linger and perish. By scores, by hundreds, they die; no help, no medicine, no skill, little food and, as if common woes were not enough, the Angel of Disease flaps his black wings like a pall.” Such the condition, says Clara Barton, in Asia Minor in 1896; and “Help or we perish,” the cry of the people.
DR. G. PASDERMADJIAN
THE DEMOCRACY OF ARMENIA
Armenian Legation,
January 17, 1922.
After the great massacre of 1895, thanks to the personal testimony of Clara Barton, we came to learn of another Christian Power, a nation dedicated to the lofty principles of our common religion, a champion of liberty and justice, and a helpful friend to all oppressed and suffering peoples. We are indebted to Clara Barton in the sense that she was the first among other Americans to inspire us with this faith.
Dr. G. Pasdermadjian,
Minister from Armenia to United States.
