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Show - i Would Have Huns Aided by Quakers VTEW YORK, Nov. 'J6. Americans 1 1 of German blood who wish to contribute to charitable and relief organizations or-ganizations in Germany were asked. In a statement by Herbert Hoover tonight, to make their contributions ! solely through the Quakers. Mr. i Hoover said he considered that ap-j ap-j peals for aid for distressed Germans were undesirable in this country, j and that to prevent such campaigns having a political import he had asked the Quakers to take charge of this section of foreign relief work. Incidentally. Mr. Hoover suggested that the Quaker spirit of pacifism will do some people in Germany good." ' ' I have felt, ' ' the statement said, in part, ' 1 that it is undesirable that such appeals should be carried cn in the United States, as it is so easy to slip over the line from pure charity to propaganda. There is a manifest and proper desire of many thousands of lcyal Americans who have relatives in Germany to do something for undernourished German Ger-man children this winter. Americans never have fought women and children; chil-dren; nevertheless, it is important that even charities for our former enemies should be organized in such form that no political import can be given to their appeals." |