Titel	American Relief Administration - European Children's Fund
Labels
ID	5320
Type	philanthropic organization
Date	1919 - 1921

Collection(s)	Cultural Politics, Transfer & Propaganda
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/5320/ https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/5353/
Notes	While the ARA used to be a government agency, it was turned into a private organization in 1919, which coincided with the change of name to the additional "European Children's Fund". This addition ("European Children's Fund") was dropped with the start of the famine relief program in Soviet Russia, in 1921. A central ideological force behind the food program was the idea that hunger would lead to bolshevism and anarchy (see Adlgasser 94). Central to its work was the concept of help for self-help (Adlgasser 83).
References	Cf. Adlgasser: "Today America Feeds Austria's Children", 79-104. For more information on ARA and esp. ARA-ECF work in Austria see Adlgasser, Franz. American Individualism Abroad: Herbert Hoover, die American Relief Administration und Österreich, 1919-1923. Vienna: VWGÖ, 1993.