ABSTRACT
The World War feared for so long at last burst out in Europe with the German invasion and conquest of Poland in September, 1939, followed by the Soviet attack on Finland in November. On the other side of the earth the Japanese war on China moved relentlessly for ward. Whatever their personal sympathies, all but a small part of the American people strongly supported national neutrality. But a great many, particularly those with ties of kinship and sentiment to one or another of the belligerents, felt the impulse to aid the suffering and the destitute. Never before had aid been given under such complex conditions as the ones now existing, and never before had it been so deeply enmeshed with the official policy of the nation.
