Nikolaos Hlamides, ‘‘The Greek Relief Committee: America’s Response to the Greek Genocide,’’ Genocide Studies and Prevention 3, 3 (December 2008): 375–383. � 2008 Genocide Studies and Prevention. doi:10.3138/gsp.3.3.375
The Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, or Greek Relief Committee (GRC), was an American relief organization formed during World War I in response to the genocide of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire.
Until October 1917, the GRC had ‘‘been working quietly under difficult circumstances without much publicity.’’6 The committee’s chairman was Frank Watterson Jackson (1874–1955), an attorney and former American consul at Patras, Greece. It was only in a 17 October 1917 statement that Jackson brought the fate of the Ottoman Greeks to America’s attention