Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time the Harvard Food Relief Committee is making an important appeal to the Harvard community. The funds to be raised will go to the needy students at the Universities of Athens, Peiping, Vienna, and Warsaw, and the international student rest center at Salzburg. Their plight is desperate; their need is great. The activity of the Student Committee in this far-sighted humanitarian enterprise is a cause for pride on the part of all those in this institution. The first drive was a great success. Those who are in a position to give must see that this effort does...
...deem the American label on gift-food as the ultimate form of good-will missionarying? In this lone sense, Americans who demand formal notes of appreciation, or their equivalents in favors and concessions, are in great danger of becoming the suckers of America's second try at European emergency relief...
...realistic sense there is a great deal more to be gained in a food-relief campaign than the impression that America is a nation of recurrent benevolence. The future that the United States looks toward is based on a rational approach to the enormous problems of economics and politics and science that face planners everywhere. In the nations of east Europe and China, the United States is interested in the stimulation, the encouragement of the groups of students who will fashion their peace out of the sure mechanism of reason and not from the unstable crucible of hunger-induced irrationality...
When Harvard undergraduates contribute to this week's Food Relief Drive they are insuring an investment of time, blood and sweat made during the war. Students in Austria, Greece, Poland and China have had faith and hopes for the peace since 1937. Since their peace is firmly ours, Harvard's contribution is not charity, but a chance at self-help...
...weeks of food relief publicity and official University cooperation will be climaxed today with the start of a week long campaign for funds toward a $25,000 goal...