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"It is a remarkable story”
said President Wilson, writing of the 
accomplishments of the American Red Cross 
in mobilizing Americans and American 
loyalty in countries far from home,

“and I share with you the deepest satisfaction 
for what these comrades of ours, 
scattered throughout the world, have done.”

THE War Council, viewing the Red 
Cross primarily as the mobilized heart
and spirit of the American people, has 
sought not alone to organize the effort of 
the men, women and children inside the 
United States, but to organize relief activities 
of American citizens throughout the 
world -- in other words to enable those 
American citizens temporarily residents 
or exiles in foreign lands to come home, 
in a sense, through the Red Cross, and 
to help win the war -- or help relieve the 
sufferings incident to the war.
After the war started, it was discovered that 
Americans in all parts of the world were determined 
to help their home country.
To organize these willing workers, and to 
harness this fine show of loyalty with the work of the 
Red Cross at home, so that their labors could be 
directed in some useful channel, with the least amount 
of waste motion and energy, was the work undertaken 
by the American Red Cross last November.
Today there are nearly 150 chapters and 
branches in foreign lands.

If there was a roll call of Red Cross members, 
the echo would answer around the world -- from 
Stockholm to Vladivostok, from Buenos Ayres to 
Cairo.
In less than a year, finished products to the 
value of $1,500,000.00 have been turned in to 
Red Cross storehouses -- knitted goods such as 
sweaters, wristlets, and helmets from China and 
Chile; surgical dressings from Brazil and Spain; 
tons of guava jelly from Porto Rico to tempt 
convalescing soldiers in France; real Havana cigars 
and cigarettes from Cuba.
The purse strings of these insistent Americans 
were loosened to the extent of $1,700,000 in the 
second Red Cross war fund drive last May, 
oversubscribing their quota nearly six times.
Membership in many cases is not confined 
strictly to Americans -- many peoples meet with us 
on common ground, and as brothers, beneath the 
Red Cross flag of humanity.
This universal support of and interest in the 
Red Cross, has demonstrated a condition in our 
Island possessions that is particularly satisfying to 
Americans at this time -- they are heart and soul 
and purse with us.

There are splendid chapters of the American 
Red Cross actively engaged in helpful work in

Porto Rico Hawaii Canal Zone The Philippines Guam Virgin Islands 
Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile China Costa Rica Cuba 
Dominican Republic Egypt England Guatemala Haiti Japan 
Nicaragua Palestine Paraguay Peru Siberia Spain 
Sweden Switzerland Uruguay Venezuela

Bulletin No. 5
-- issued by the War Council of the American 
Red Cross to tell the story of Red 
Cross activities to the American people