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“After the capture of Jerusalem the first civilian relief organization to reach the Holy Land was the American Red Cross. But as you know America played no part whatever in the military end of the campaign. Near the Damascus Gate they established a soup kitchen where hundreds of Mohammedan women came every day”

-Lowell Thomas
“With Allenby in Palestine” (1919)

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