The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . the frailness of its ancient architecture TOWER OF ST. STEFAXO nation, the industrial state in the world of raw piles had been ripped out from beneath the livelihood ofVenice, laying bare how every part of the commonwealth isrooted in the whole. There was another, a more immediate and practical rea-son, which set off Venice among the cities of our tour. Itoffered the American Red Cross the opportunity to help engi-neer an organized evacuation—-the very reverse of what hadhappened in the pell-mell retreat from the Italian war the revers
The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . the frailness of its ancient architecture TOWER OF ST. STEFAXO nation, the industrial state in the world of raw piles had been ripped out from beneath the livelihood ofVenice, laying bare how every part of the commonwealth isrooted in the whole. There was another, a more immediate and practical rea-son, which set off Venice among the cities of our tour. Itoffered the American Red Cross the opportunity to help engi-neer an organized evacuation—-the very reverse of what hadhappened in the pell-mell retreat from the Italian war the reverse of the French and Belgian experience also,for it offered opportunity to get in at the start, and to helpmove the people by natural, work-a-day groups, kept intactfrom the threatened city to their place of refuge. This op-portunity had been seized for the American Red Cross by theAmerican consul, B. Harvey Carroll, a Texas newspapereditor of imagination and redoubtable energy. Early inNovember the Red Cross headquarters in Rome h
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