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Object description
Edited wordprocessed transcript (105pp) of a diary, with contemporary annexes giving details of local shipping movements, covering his command of the American destroyer USS FOX from September 1921 - June 1922 during her deployment in the Black Sea in support of the local staff of the American Relief Administration (ARA) which was delivering famine relief supplies to Soviet Russia and describing in particular FOX's voyages from November 1921 onwards to the Black Sea ports of Samsoun and Trebizond in Turkish Anatolia, with references to meetings with Near East Relief staff, Turkish civil officials, political tensions between the Turks and the Greeks and the suffering of the remaining Greek communities as they awaited deportation, and to the Soviet Russian Black Sea ports of Novorossiysk, Theodosia, Sevastopol and Odessa, with references to his negotiations and meetings with senior Bolshevik civil and military officials and local ARA representatives, the desperate plight of many of the people living in the ports and the general state of Soviet-American relations in the different ports.
Content description
Edited wordprocessed transcript (105pp) of a diary, with contemporary annexes giving details of local shipping movements, covering his command of the American destroyer USS FOX from September 1921 - June 1922 during her deployment in the Black Sea in support of the local staff of the American Relief Administration (ARA) which was delivering famine relief supplies to Soviet Russia and describing in particular FOX's voyages from November 1921 onwards to the Black Sea ports of Samsoun and Trebizond in Turkish Anatolia, with references to meetings with Near East Relief staff, Turkish civil officials, political tensions between the Turks and the Greeks and the suffering of the remaining Greek communities as they awaited deportation, and to the Soviet Russian Black Sea ports of Novorossiysk, Theodosia, Sevastopol and Odessa, with references to his negotiations and meetings with senior Bolshevik civil and military officials and local ARA representatives, the desperate plight of many of the people living in the ports and the general state of Soviet-American relations in the different ports.
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Cataloguer RWAS