American foreign policy is at its best when it looks overseas to stop hunger, malnutrition and suffering. This is a continuing epic of American compassion.
World War I officially ended recently with the final German reparation payment. The war left a legacy of widespread death and destruction, and it set in motion the chain of events leading to World War II. There is one legacy though of World War I that we do want to remain with us always--one of compassion.
American food aid saved millions of lives during and after the war, France being one of the countries that benefited from this generosity. Herbert Hoover wrote "The exposure of the suffering of France at the Armistice deeply stirred the sympathy of the American people. At once there sprang into being a host of new voluntary charitable agencies...an epic of American compassion."
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