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International Committee of the Red Cross
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Cecily Mackworth | In May 1940 Paris began to fill up with Belgian refugees (who at the end of the month, when Belgium capitulated, became suddenly official enemies of Britain). CM
began working (I don't quite remember... |
Travel | Sarah Macnaughtan | During her travels, although she was not a trained nurse, she tended victims of atrocities in the Balkans and volunteered for the Red Cross
during the Boer War. |
Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis
. It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion... |
Occupation | Elma Napier | With the onset of World War One, EN
engaged in philanthropic work such as sewing pyjamas for the Red Cross
and knitting socks and making flannel shirts for the Comforts Fund
. In 1915 she... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Margaret Sackville | Here, as in Edinburgh, she entered energetically into local literary life. She was the first president (for two terms) of the North Gloucestershire (Cheltenham) Centre of Poetry
, and during the second world war... |
politics | Violet Trefusis | VT
associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini
) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré
worked for the Red Cross
in... |
Occupation | Katharine Tynan | |
Publishing | Katharine Tynan | Flower of Youth was so popular that KT
's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson
, printed and sold it as a leaflet, donating the profits to the Red Cross
. Tynan, Katharine. The Years of the Shadow. Constable. 176 |
Occupation | Evelyn Underhill | However, her renunciation of war did not prevent her from undertaking any humanitarian effort related to war. Biographer Christopher Armstrong
notes that in the years leading up to the war, both EU
and her husband... |
Occupation | Dorothy Whipple | |
Employer | Amabel Williams-Ellis |
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