Office of the Historian

367.1164 Brusa School Trial/1: Telegram

The Ambassador in Turkey (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Constantinople, January 22, 1928—8 p.m.
[Received January 22—6 p.m.]

5. In view of Turkish law prohibiting religious propaganda in schools, Turkish Government has sent representatives to investigate alleged conversion to Christianity of four girl students in American school at Brusa whose diaries were stolen and turned over to Turkish authorities. Goodsell46 states American school has been conforming [Page 965] scrupulously antipropaganda law; therefore, American board welcomes investigation and believes incident will be settled satisfactorily. I shall report result.

Grew
  1. Fred Field Goodsell, field secretary of the Turkish Mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.↩