Committee For Relief in Belgium

Committee For Relief In Belgium

The Commission for Relief in Belgium or C.R.B. − known also as just Belgian Relief − was an international (predominantly American) organization that arranged for the supply of food to German-occupied Belgium and northern France during the First World War.

Its leading figure was chairman Herbert Hoover (later president of the US).

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