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Title: The American Red Cross in the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Davison, Henry Pomeroy, 1867-1922
Subjects: American National Red Cross World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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have taken advantage of therather exceptional opportunities that I had of observ-ing the manifold sacrifices — be it financial, moral, ormilitary — that Great Britain made to strengthen her sup-port of her AlUes, my good friends the British would prefer,I know, that I should not enumerate them. But for alltheir modesty the soldiers of the American Army know whatthe British did in France; the men of the American Navyknow full well what the British did for us in the transpor-tation of our Armies and in the moving of our supplies; andthe Red Cross knows, as neither the Army and the Navy canknow, how ungrudging was the measure of British achieve-ments in labors of Mercy at a time when her own resourcesin man-power and money were taxed to the breaking point.There was no scene of suffering, whether near by or distant,in Belgium or BaikaUa, France or Mesopotamia, Italy orPalestine, wherein Great Britain did not bear the largestpart of the burden of relief. From the early days of the 222
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GREAT BRITAIN 223 Wax the members of the British Red Cross, never ruffledor flurried, went about performing their difficult task in thatimostentatious manner that is so characteristic of theirrace. And no matter whether the Americans pitched theirtents along the northern shores of the White Sea or besidethe southern waters of the Black Sea or anywhere else,they were sure to find that an encampment of the BritishRed Cross had preceded them. Whatever disagreements, to put it mildly, may have beenfated to the two great EngUsh-speaking nations in the past,there can be no question that Great Britain, from the King tohis last stout soldier, has been our close friend and good Allyall through the Armageddon that has now ended. Quitenaturally, therefore, it was our appreciation of this friendship,together with the knowledge of the magnitude of the Britishefforts, that had so much to do with the spirit in which thework of the American Red Cross was begun in Great Britain.For some time British a

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