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1\ Newspaper cuttings with appeals for funds for European children, 1920-1922:
/1 Newspaper cutting 'The Most Awful Spectacle in History: millions of children naked and starving in Europe': article including drawing of destitute woman and children, and request for support by Save the Children Fund (SCF), from the Daily News, 4 March 1920
/2 Newspaper page 'Thousands of Children under Three Years of Age Condemned to Die!': article including drawing of mother with starving child, and request for support by Save the Children Fund, full page from the Daily News, 10 May 1920
/3 Newspaper cutting 'Heartrending Scenes Amongst Dying Children: shall help come too late?': SCF article and request for support, 3 June 1920
/4 Newspaper cutting 'Help! Millions of Starving Children Suffering Unendurable Hardships': SCF article with request for support, Daily [News], 13 October 1920
/5 Newspaper page 'One Crisis Passed but Another Reached: Frightful Plight of Starving Children': SCF article with drawing of woman and children in the snow, and requst for support, from the Daily News, 9 November 1920
/6 Newspaper page 'Xmas Day Will Sound the Death Knell for Many Innocent Little Ones - unless you and your friends come to their assistance': SCF article and request for support, page from the Daily Mirror, 16 December 1920
/7 Newspaper page 'Humanity's Greatest Christmas Appeal: millions of helpless children starving and dying': SCF article including drawings and request for support, page from the Daily News, 22 December 1920
/8 Newspaper page 'Grim Tragedy of Famine-Stricken Russia: millions of babes slowly and painfully dying from starvation': SCF article and request for support, page from the Daily News, 4 August 1921
/9 Newspaper page 'The Most Terrible Devastation that has Afflicted the World for Centuries': SCF article including image of Lloyd George and Dr Nansen, page from the Daily News, 25 August 1921
/10 Newspaper cutting 'The Most Terrible Devastation that has Afflicted the World for Centuries: piteous appeal for the succour of little children in the throes of starvation': SCF article including photos of supporters Lloyd George, Sir Philip Gibbs, Lord Weardale, Lord Curzon, Dr Nansen and Rt Hon W. Hughes, from The Times, 2 December 1921
/11 Newspaper cutting 'Doomed to Die on Xmas Day: pitiful plight of starving little children': SCF article including images and request for support, from the Manchester Guardian, 8 December 1921
/12 Newspaper cutting 'Awful Plight of 5,000,000 Children - in hourly danger of death from starvation and disease': SCF article and request for support, from the [Daily News], no date [1920/1921]
/13 Newspaper cutting 'The World's Greatest Tragedy Intensified: many more millions of men, women, and children involved': SCF article regarding the Russia famine with request for support, [8 February] 1922
2\ Photocopies of newspaper cuttings and handbills, [c 1995]:
/1 Handbill 'A Starving Baby' showing an emaciated child of 2, with text 'The only way to bring real help to starving Europe is to restore free intercourse between the nations and allow the starving countries to feed themselves'; produced by the National Labour Press, [May 1919]
/2 Handbill 'The Slaughter of the Innocents' containing facts on the destruction of child life in famine areas of Central Europe and the Near East, published by SCF, [May 1919]
/3 Handbill 'The Government Wants Our Help!' - appeal by SCF for support and funds, published by SCF, [?June 1919]
/4 Newspaper cuttings: 'What Does Britain Stand For' and 'Starving Children' from the Daily Herald, May 1919
/5 Handbill 'Save the Children Fund: An Appeal to Humanity', 1919; newspaper cuttings: 'Fund in Aid of Swiss Relief for Starving Children', 'Save the Children', photographs of Lord Parmoor and fiancee Marion Ellis, philanthropists, [1919]
/6 Cutting from Co-operative News: 'A Message to Those who Believe in the Sanctity of Motherhood and Childhood' including image of one of Prague's starving children, May 1919
/7 Pages 323-324 from Common Sense with report of the meeting whereby SCF came into existence 'The Albert Hall Meeting in Aid of Starving Women and Children', May 1919
/8 Eight newspaper cuttings referring to the blockade, May-June 1919
/9 Three newspaper cuttings with letters 'written and engineered by DFB' [Dorothy Frances Buxton] relating to the blockade and treaty, from the Manchester Guardian, June-July 1919
/10 Newspaper cutting with article on 'The Children of Europe' June 1919; handbill 'A Message from English Men and Women of Good-will all over the World' published by SCF, 1919; words of the 'Famine Hymn' published by SCF [1919]
/11 Five newspaper cuttings relating to the famine in Europe and Asia, the economic situation in Germany (one written by Dorothy Buxton), June, August 1919
/12 Four newspaper cuttings on Europe's destitution and the Pope's approval of SCF's scheme of united relief, September 1919
/13 Leaflet produced by SCF 'The Clothes Famine' describing the needs of countries in Europe and urging donations of clothes and linen to be sent to various agencies, September 1919
/14 Cutting from unidentified periodical 'Children Help Children' reporting on relief efforts, November 1919
/15 Page with several newspaper cuttings relating to the famine in Vienna, France, Brussels, November 1919
/16 Appeal leaflet 'The Starving of Europe' urging a collection on 28 December, published by SCF, December 1919; 'Christmas Eve, 1919, Vienna' a poem by John Beresford; newspaper cutting with letter from Lord Weardale on the collection on 28 December 1919
/17 Copy of part of newspaper cutting SCF/SC/DB/12/1/1, March 1920
/18 Pages from 'Woman's Outlook' with article 'The World's Children' by Geraldine Cooke, secretary of SCF, March 1920
/19 Page from the 'Daily News' with article 'Thousands of Children under Three Years of Age Condemned to Death!' May 1920 (2 copies)
/20 Three newspaper cuttings: photo of Nansen the 'Soviet's intermediary in famine relief work' arriving in London, September 1921; 'Help for Russian Children'; SCF appeal made in Crowborough [1921]
/21 Two newspaper cuttings with reports of SCF support in Crowborough, [1921]
/22 Part of a newspaper cutting with SCF article and appeal for aid for Russia famine victims [December 1921] |