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Title: King Albert Fund: homes for the homeless Belgians
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: World War 1914-1918
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t, and because she sacri-ficed herself for the cause of civilization, thatBelgium commands the respect of all Belgium has not perished, and she shallnot perish! Though to-day she is only the 14 fragmentof the Homeland which Verhaeren glori-fies : Ce nest quun bout de sol ehoit, Mais qui renferme encore et sa reine et son foi Et 1amour condense dun peuple qui les aime. (1) yet the day draws near when she will arise, whole, greater because of her sacrifice andby her sufferings. But before she can return to her formerprosperity, the towns and villages destroyedby her barbarous invader must arise fromtheir ashes, and, first of all, a shelter mustbe provided for those who fled before thedestruction and burning of their homes. The organization which was created toprovide these emergency shelters was natu-rally placed under the patronage of him, whoon the day of the invasion, declared that (0 Tis but a narrow strip of soil, Yet still it holds its King and Queen And their peoples pent-up love
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Map of Belgium showing - by communesthe number of houses destroyed during the war. — Explanatory Signs.— mlOOO houses destroyed * Grand \ + \ ^Ducfce de \ •* \ Ar/o/z^i \2000 houses destroyed500 houses destroyed © 50 of less destroyed As of May I, 1916 - Reduction oj a map made by the Minulery of Agricullurc and Public JP^ork*,< Ifunicinnl Htnh Way Commiddlon). KING ALBERT FUND Belgium should not perish ; it is KingAlbert Fund. More than 400.000 Belgians are stillliving in England, France, Holland andSwitzerland, those hospitable countries towhich they lied in 1914, but all, no matterwith what friendliness they were received,are awaiting with feverish impatience thehour of their return to their native land.For exile is bitter, even to the least unfor-tunate among them. They long for all thatthey have left behind — their loved ones,their country, the homes in which they livedand where they tasted the joys and thesorrows of domestic life. What despair and discouragement woul

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