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Commission for Relief in Belgium
World War I hunger relief organization / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB, or simply Belgian Relief) was an international, predominantly American, organization that arranged for the supply of food to German-occupied Belgium and northern France during the First World War.
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Its leading figure was chairman, and future President of the United States, Herbert Hoover.