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American Committee for Devastated France
Formation1919
PurposeHumanitarian aid
HeadquartersBlérancourt, France
Region served
French Third Republic
Anne Morgan, co-founder of the American Committee for Devastated France
A goodwill delegation of American businesswomen travel to France on behalf of the committee in 1923[1]

American Committee for Devastated France (1919–1924), also known as CARD (Comité Américain pour les Régions Dévastées de France), was a small group of American women who volunteered to help the French Third Republic recover from the destruction of The Great War[2] (later known as World War I)[3]

  1. ^ "Women to See Battlefields". Seattle Star. 23 May 1923. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  2. ^ American Committee for Devastated France Records; 1919-1926, Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
  3. ^ National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th Street, Kansas City, Mo. 64108

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