tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013738514013529239.post5324381401603026854..comments2023-10-21T18:12:52.574+03:00Comments on Island news: PARADISE LOST: SMYRNA 1922Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07341994979930748711noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013738514013529239.post-75297112431996775422022-09-13T11:50:37.474+03:002022-09-13T11:50:37.474+03:00Being a relative of the Lorando family it is amazi...Being a relative of the Lorando family it is amazing to know the details. We knew of the Reed family, Rosalind and the members of the American College of Smyrna to whom we were related but not all. Thanks for sharing. Nestos Sarafoglouhttps://www.lsaluxuryproperties.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013738514013529239.post-37408554072957918202019-11-29T17:16:11.726+02:002019-11-29T17:16:11.726+02:00I haven't had a chance to read your book yet, ...I haven't had a chance to read your book yet, but I have a lot of documents that you might be interested in. My grandfather was a professor at International College in 1922. This is from my grandmother's memoir: <br /><br />On Wednesday, the 13th of September, Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Birge and ourselves were ordered to leave for Greece with our families. Dr. Lorando and his wife and children also came. Miss Craig, the American girl who taught the American children and lived with me, also came. We went in a car, driven by a sailor and with an American flag covering the hood. The road was strewn with dead bodies, and Smyrna houses had all the shutters closed and doors locked. But looting was going on. We waited in the American theater until we were taken aboard the destroyer Lichfield and landed at Piraeus, Greece the next morning. Arthur Godfrey, of radio and TV fame, was a member of the Lichfield's crew. <br /><br />Dr. Lorando had his wife and their two little children. The younger one died that night. I had a large room on the ground floor in a hotel in Athens and all the children slept in the same room with me. I got a spirit-lamp stove and prepared breakfast and supper for the children. We were there about a month before we got passage on a ship to New York."<br /><br />My aunt Grace Lewis kept a diary of the events http://www.lawrencefamilytree.com/grace-lewis--diary-september-1922.html<br />Mike Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03282799702101113858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3013738514013529239.post-55922039899882561722012-09-25T16:12:00.925+03:002012-09-25T16:12:00.925+03:00In December 1919 an international commission chair...In December 1919 an international commission chaired by USA Admiral mark Bristol condemned<br />Greek attrocities at Smyrna, emphasizing that they Trojan Horsed Protectorate into annexation.<br />Greeks went to Smyrna and Alexandria because they fled the bankruptcy of 1893, but they<br />went as bad guests, trying to "Hellenize" everything just as they do in America. They should not<br />be surprised if they are now expelled from America as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com