ABSTRACT
Philanthropy itself implies an inequality between donor and recipient, an implication which many Americans have tried to minimize but not always successfully. The newly organized Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, the Rosenwald Fund, the Pilgrim Trust and the Commonwealth Fund devoted part of their resources to overseas philanthropies. Inspired by the phenomenal success of fund raising for charitable purposes in the great "drives" of the First World War, several campaigns for overseas relief in the 1920's made use of professional organizations as Marts and Lundy and the John Price Jones Corporation. During the years of neutrality in the First World War and in the following years, the government played a policy-oriented role in providing relief to the Allies and to Central and Eastern Europe in the dark time of starvation and pesitilence. The intermingling of public and private giving during and since the Second World War has reflected an even more self-conscious awareness of national policy.
