Engineer becoming diplomat: Herbert Hoover's role in the work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium in 1914-1917
The goal of this article is to review an unprecedented relief effort of Herbert Hoover, when a prominent mining engineer had to become a diplomat, with the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB). Hoover, who possessed excellent diplomatic and organizational skills, played a significant role in averting what could have been a potential humanitarian disaster for Belgium in 1914-1917
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| Perevezentsev Alexandr L. | Aktobe State University named after K. Zhubanov (Kazakhstan) | alex_perevezentsev@yahoo.com |
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