Word: reds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Red Cross is acting as a war-winner and a peace-stayer," said Henry P. Davison, chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross to a CRIMSON representative during his recent visit to Boston. "The work of the Red Cross in France today not only serves to strengthen and support the armies and to keep up the health and morale of the young and old behind the lines, but it is also laying a strong foundation upon which to build a satisfactory and lasting peace after the conclusion of the war. It is helping...
...Almost everyone knows of the marvelous work which the Red Cross is doing in comforting the soldiers in the trenches and in the rest camps behind the battle front, of the indispensable aid it has brought to the hospitals, and of the tremendous good it has done to the needy children and old people; but few appreciate the indirect effect which all this work will bring about. We are giving a demonstration to the people of our allies that we are really in this war. We are showing them that we are not the 'land of the dollar...
...have fought for. As allies, we must hang together in peace and in war. We can hardly imagine the disastrous results if we make a peace which would fall through, and then have to fight a whole war over again. Besides directly saving lives and shortening the war, the Red Cross is forming relations with the European people and definitely forming the character of the peace and showing what American ideals...
...spent last summer in Russia as a member of the American Red Cross Mission. Our party consisted of twenty-nine men and included specialists in medicine, bacteriology, hospital management, food, sanitation, and sociology. Colonel Frank Buildings of Chicago was in command of the expedition. We left Boston on June 29, crossed the Pacific in ten days, and then took the long ride of thirteen days across Siberia and Russia to Petrograd, where we arrived August 7. The object of the Mission was to give aid to the Russian people in their prosecution of the war by furnishing needed supplies...
...Christmas entertainment, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the Red Cross, will be given under the auspices of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defence, Tuesday evening of next week in Sanders Theatre. Professor I. L. Winter '86 will read Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carols," and selections will be sung by the University Choir in Conjunction with the Radcliffe Choir Society. The musical part of the program will be under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison...