Belgium

From an Introduction by Herbert Hoover   1917

BELGIUM, after centuries of intermittent misery and recuperation as the cockpit of Europe, had with a hundred years of the peaceful fruition of the intelligence, courage, thrift, and industry of its people, emerged as the beehive of the Continent.  Its population of 8,000,000 upon an area of little less than Maryland was supported by the importation of raw materials, and by their manufacture and their exchange over-seas for two-thirds of the vital necessities of its daily life.

Women of Belgium by Charlotte Kellogg
New York and London : Funk & Wagnalls 1917, page vii.

Form Women of Belgium by Charlotte Kellogg (1917)

MR. HOOVER'S visits to Brussels are crowded with conferences, endless complications to be straightened out, figures and reports to be accepted or rejected—with all the unimaginable difficulties incident to the relief of an occupied territory.

Responsible on the one hand to England, on the other to Germany, dependent always on the continued active support of his own countrymen and on the efficiency and integrity of the local relief organization, he fights his way literally inch by inch and hour by hour to bring in bread for the Belgian mother and her child.

Women of Belgium Turning Tragedy to Triumph
New York and London : Funk & Wagnalls 1917, p. 204.

Bibliographic notes

Author Kellogg, Charlotte. Title Women of Belgium; turning tragedy to triumph. By Charlotte Kellogg, with an introduction by Herbert C. Hoover ... Publisher New York, London : Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1917. Description xviii, 210, [1] p. front., plates. 20 cm. Language English