by repulsewarrior » Thu Apr 30, 2026 6:14 am
...i wrote this poem while watching.
-Smyrna-
Asa Jennings saved them,
the original inhabitants:
these cosmopolitan people.
...such is the reward,
all Greeks united
were betrayed...
"they had their orders"
not to intervene
"this is an internal matter"
it was said.
and, fast the intentions held with
those focused on what they could do,
ending precisely where this "territory ended":
300,000 burned.
He began at first to stop this
there with little rowboats; refused
by all the World whose Warships waited
without shame a Greek government which
could (or would) not as Governments act:
He, worked tirelessly through the night he works
tirelessly through the day, so that...
in this evacuation a million and more will thank him
for being saved....
September 22, 1922.
When did Greeks and Turks hate
each other so much but
, what was offered
in the Treaty of Lausanne?
Indeed,
the horror
that happened
that day was worse
than the worst days of the greatest war
it followed,
so says Churchill.
-30-
