The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . oncealed by his grey-green uniform,went from car to car, in the rain and the cold, inflaming theirhearts with words of encouragement. Not once, so the can-teen workers tell the story, but the trains rolled out withthe people singing patriotic hymns, and cheering for Italy, forthe allies, for America. The American note has been struck in all this Red Crosswork in Italy—not in a spirit of self-advertisement for theUnited States, but rather of assurance for Italians, to givethem tangible evidence that in resisting invasion and in get-ting under its heavy load
The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . oncealed by his grey-green uniform,went from car to car, in the rain and the cold, inflaming theirhearts with words of encouragement. Not once, so the can-teen workers tell the story, but the trains rolled out withthe people singing patriotic hymns, and cheering for Italy, forthe allies, for America. The American note has been struck in all this Red Crosswork in Italy—not in a spirit of self-advertisement for theUnited States, but rather of assurance for Italians, to givethem tangible evidence that in resisting invasion and in get-ting under its heavy load of civil distress the American peopleare with them; evidence not merely in sympathetic cables anddistant girdings for war, but evidence expressed in such hum-ble but convincing terms as surgical dressings and instrumentsfor field and base hospitals, shirts and drawers and stockingsfor shivering limbs in asile and refuge trains, condensed milkfor hungry babies, blankets and beds and stoves for homeless Photo by Central News Service. FLEEING BEFORE THE INVADERS A cart-load of peasant women and children on their way south 484 THE SURVEY FOR F EB RU A RY 2, 191 families in lodgings in the northern cities, in vacant villasalong the seacoast, in country villages in Umbria, in old con-vents and monasteries in the South. There was genuinestatesmanship in the call for combs which came from a RedCross worker in Leghorn, and in the good sense of the Amer-ican women in Florence who got together and made sanitarynapkins far into the night. The sober officials of one Emilianotown were hopeless of providing bedding for the ten thou-sand refugees in their prefecture, but in the midst of theirquandary they sent two visiting Red Cross inspectors on theirway to a neighboring city in the municipal motor car, thefiremen in brass-bound helmets on the drivjers seat, and thesiren sounding as they scattered dogs and children. The RedCross men caught the spirit of the new diplomacy when theysent the c
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