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The Quaker Star Under Seven Flags, 1917-1927 / John Van Gelder Forbes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1962]Copyright date: ©1962Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512811582
  • 9781512815979
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.3144
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. QUAKER RELIEF -- 2. CONSCRIPTION -- 3. FRANCE -- 4. SERBIA; AUSTRIA; BULGARIA; IRELAND -- 5. GERMANY -- 6. POLAND AND UPPER SILESIA -- 7. RUSSIA: 1917-1921 -- 8. RUSSIA: 1921-1927 -- 9. EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- RELATED READING -- INDEX -- MAPS
Summary: Between the years 1917 and 1927, the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia worked with agencies of seven governments to bring help to civilian victims of the first world war. This small private committee held fast to its original conviction that relief out to be administered to sufferers of famine and plague—not from political motivations but because such help was right, humane, and necessary.John Forbes's study The Quaker Star Under Seven Flags traces, through the war and its aftermath, the committee's negotiations with the governments of the United States, France, Serbia, Austria, German, Poland, and Soviet Russia. Forbes describes the field programs that were undertaken in cooperation with these governments after agreement was reached and carried out in collaboration with the great public enterprises that were also pioneering in overseas reliefThe book relates how the members of the Religious Society of Friends upheld the Society's commitment for peace not only by refusing to bear arms but also by working with the State and War Departments of the United States, as well as with the American Red Cross and the American Relief Administration. Joined by the British Friends War Victims Relief Committee, and in conjunction with officials of the stricken lands, they carried food, clothing, medicine, and hope across the English Channel into the heart of continental Europe, as far east as revolutionary Russia.A stirring account of the contribution toward peace of a selfless and courageous group, The Quaker Start Under Seven Flags illuminates some of the modern world's disturbing and puzzling foreign-aid problems. It indicates that it is not only the quantity of aid and the efficiency of its administration that counts but also the spirit in which it is given.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. QUAKER RELIEF -- 2. CONSCRIPTION -- 3. FRANCE -- 4. SERBIA; AUSTRIA; BULGARIA; IRELAND -- 5. GERMANY -- 6. POLAND AND UPPER SILESIA -- 7. RUSSIA: 1917-1921 -- 8. RUSSIA: 1921-1927 -- 9. EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- RELATED READING -- INDEX -- MAPS

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Between the years 1917 and 1927, the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia worked with agencies of seven governments to bring help to civilian victims of the first world war. This small private committee held fast to its original conviction that relief out to be administered to sufferers of famine and plague—not from political motivations but because such help was right, humane, and necessary.John Forbes's study The Quaker Star Under Seven Flags traces, through the war and its aftermath, the committee's negotiations with the governments of the United States, France, Serbia, Austria, German, Poland, and Soviet Russia. Forbes describes the field programs that were undertaken in cooperation with these governments after agreement was reached and carried out in collaboration with the great public enterprises that were also pioneering in overseas reliefThe book relates how the members of the Religious Society of Friends upheld the Society's commitment for peace not only by refusing to bear arms but also by working with the State and War Departments of the United States, as well as with the American Red Cross and the American Relief Administration. Joined by the British Friends War Victims Relief Committee, and in conjunction with officials of the stricken lands, they carried food, clothing, medicine, and hope across the English Channel into the heart of continental Europe, as far east as revolutionary Russia.A stirring account of the contribution toward peace of a selfless and courageous group, The Quaker Start Under Seven Flags illuminates some of the modern world's disturbing and puzzling foreign-aid problems. It indicates that it is not only the quantity of aid and the efficiency of its administration that counts but also the spirit in which it is given.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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