Anne Morgan's War Rebuilding France, 1917-1924

[Dalia]

This American woman who loved France, Their dynamic leader was Anne Morgan (1873–1952), a daughter of the financier Pierpont Morgan. As she rallied potential volunteers and donors on speaking tours across the United States, Morgan harnessed the power of documentary photography to foster a humanitarian response to the plight of French refugees.

The American Committee for Devastated France was one of many relief organizations—often founded and staffed by women—that sprang up in the United States during the First World War. The group was relatively small (some 350 women of a total of 25,000 who served abroad during the war), but the effects of its commitment were profound. Side by side with the people of northeastern France, these women created an astonishing array of services to revitalize life in a region considered by many to be beyond redemption.

Anne Morgan's War: Rebuilding Devastated France, 1917–1924
Anne Morgan's War: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924 - Coral Gables Museum

 

[there4eyeM]

Interesting.
Vive l'amitié franco-americaine!

 

[there4eyeM]

Nous avons besoin l'un à l'autre.

 

[Dalia]

Nous avons besoin l'un à l'autre.

Yes, history has demonstrated it, Lafayette who came to help during the war of independence and the GIs who came to kick the buttocks of the Nazis we may not be there neither one nor the other without its two past events

 

[whitehall]

While Annie was raising money to rebuild France, her father Jack was overseer (Morgan Guarantee) of Germany's war reparations that paved the way for Hitler's Nazis to take over power.