• Portait of Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), director of the American Relief Commission from 1914 to 1915 and the Commission for the Relief of Belgium from 1915 to 1918; he became the U.S. Food Administrator in charge of food aid after the war. Source: YMCA Photograph Collection—Foreign Work, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.

Source: YMCA Photograph Collection—Foreign Work, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.

From Pursuit of an "unparalleled opportunity": American YMCA and prisoner of war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923 by Kenneth Steuer

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