367.1164 Brusa School Trial/56
The Chargé in Turkey (Crosby) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 12.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Embassy’s despatch No. 520 of October 2, 1928,66 and with further reference to the reopening of the Brusa school to inform the Department that, according to a letter dated October 20, 1928, a copy of which is enclosed, from Mr. Luther R. Fowle, [Page 981] Treasurer of the Turkey Mission of the American Board,67 the petition of Miss Jillson to reopen the American School at Brusa has been refused by the Ministry of Public Instruction.
Mr. Fowle, in referring to the enclosed copy of a communication from the Director of Education at Brusa, dated October 14, 1928,67 is of the opinion that if perchance the case should finally end in an acquittal of Miss Jillson the position taken by the Minister of Public Instruction “would logically seem to make necessary the reopening of the School”.
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First Secretary of Embassy