The Commission For Relief In Belgium

Author : George I. Gay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331489491
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Public Relations of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Vol. 1 written by George I. Gay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Public Relations of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Vol. 1: Documents Inversely the Commission was not exclusively accountable to any single government or state, but in a different measure to many of them. To the Western Allies it was accountable for the fulfillment of German guarantees respecting relief and for the protection and equitable use of imported and native supplies; to the Germans, for the exclusive employ ment for the benefit of Belgian and French civilians of its many special privileges. To the people of Belgium and Northern France, whom the fortunes of war had deprived of the protection of their Governments, the Commission was a volunteer champion striving with all its power and with the indispensable collaboration of the Belgian Comite National and the Comite Francais to succor and defend them. To the Belgian, French, British, and later the United States Governments which furnished subventions for relief, and to the millions of individuals of all corners of the world who contributed money, goods, or services, the Commis sion was answerable for the honest and efficient use of the resources placed at its disposal - resources which in money and goods alone amounted to nearly a billion dollars, a sum about equivalent to the net debt of the United States in the years prior to the war. This brief statement of responsibilities by no means covers the entire field of the Commission's obligations, but it indi cates the complexity and variety of its public relations. Because of this complexity and because the primary pur pose of this book is to present materials for the history of the c.r.b. And of Belgian and French relief, it has seemed advisable to arrange the documents in groups representing important phases of the undertaking rather than in straight chronological order. This arrangement makes cross refer emees numerous and repetition inevitable, since certain events affected several phases of the Commission's activities and many documents deal with more than one subject; but it has the advantage of permitting the documents to stand by themselves with a minimum of editorial comment. More over such comment as is made is not interpretative but sup plementary and explanatory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.