The US Politicians Talk - The US People Give.
"Near East Relief raised $110 million to help refugees from the Ottoman Empire. This is equivalent to $1.25 billion today. Nearly one thousand men and women served overseas from 1915 to 1930. Thousands more volunteered throughout the country. Near East Relief efforts led to the building of scores of orphanages, vocational schools and food distributions centers and saved the lives of over a million Armenian, Greek and Syrian refugees, including 132,000 orphans." (1)
While the world's great and powerful converged on Paris to rewite world-wide diplomacy and redraw the maps of the world. A humanitarian crisis was unfolding in the remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Using a wide-ranging advertising campaign the Near East Relief Committee highlighted the plight of the victims of the failed Ottoman Empire.