Report and financial statement. December 1st, 1921, to June 30th, 1923. 31 pages. Printed in Melbourne by H.E. Pett & Co.
Fund started at instigation of the Quakers, and taken up by other churches and charities.
Margaret Thorp pages 4, 10, 19, 22; and Arthur Watts page 4.
After the Armistice, there were approximately twenty organisations - religious, social and philanthropic - taking part in relief work in Central Europe. The Australian Relief Fund for Stricken Europe was inaugurated in 1921 to coordinate funding efforts, after Australians (including Margaret Thorp of the Society of Friends) returned from relief work confirming stories of distress, disease and starvation rampant in Europe. On her return, Margaret Thorp lectured and organised committees throughout the Commonwealth