The American-Hellenic Society is organized for the general purpose of extending and encouraging among the citizens of the United States of America an interest in the cultural and political relations between the United States and Greece; and in particular to promote educational relationships, including the establishment of exchange professorships in the Universities of the United States and Greece, as a means to diffuse knowledge of the literature and political institutions of the United States throughout Greece, and to encourage in America the study of the ancient and modern Hellenic language and literature; and further to defend the just claims of Greece in particular and of Hellenism in general. FOOTNOTES [1] The Metropolis of Tarsus and Adana, although it is, geographically, in Asia Minor, falls under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Antioch and is therefore omitted here. [2] See authorities for these statements in an essay by the present writer, published in the _Michigan Law Review_, vol. VI., 1907-1908, pp. 50-52, and entitled, “Roman Law and Mohammedan Jurisprudence,” Part I. [3] See Publication No. 3 of the American-Hellenic Society, entitled _Persecutions of the Greeks in Turkey since the Beginning of the European War_, June, 1918. [4] The present writer, in carrying on researches dealing with Asia Minor, came upon Dr. Dieterich’s study, and, after reading it, thought that it would be better to publish this essay than to write a new one, inasmuch as he noticed that, with the exception of a few observations which were to be expected from a German writer, the author gives, on the whole, an accurate and impartial account of the condition of things in Asia Minor, and does not seem to share the views of many of the civil and military officials of Germany, who consider that the existence of the Hellenic element there is detrimental to the interests of Deutschtum. It seemed, therefore, that no better testimony could be found than that adduced by a subject of Kaiser Wilhelm on the material and intellectual strength of Hellenism in Asia Minor, which is the latest bugbear of the Teutons and the target of Turkish cruelty. [5] See an account of this interview in a Greek pamphlet entitled _How Germany Destroyed Hellenism in Turkey_, by G. Mikrasianou, 1916, and particularly the confidential letter of the Turkish Minister of the Interior, Talaat Bey (now Prime Minister), dated May 14, 1914, to the Governor of Smyrna, reproduced in _Le Temps_ of July 20, 1916, and the English translation of it in Publication No. 3 of the American-Hellenic Society, p. 70. [6] Supplement to the Greek White Book, entitled _Ministère des Affaires Étrangers, Documents Diplomatiques, Supplément_, 1913-1917, Nos. 1 and 4. [7] Oftentimes the name of the school embodies that of the donor, as, _e.g._, Marasleion, Zographeion, Theologeion are named from Marasles, Zographos and Theologos.