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- Title
Raging Rivers and Propaganda Weevils: Transnational Disaster Relief, Cold War Politics, and the 1954 Danube and Elbe Floods.
- Authors
IRWIN, JULIA F.
- Abstract
An essays is presented on the history of U.S. and transnational humanitarian assistance in the context of the 1954-1955 flooding of the Danube River, the Elbe River. It looks at the food relief offered by the U.S. to the affected countries under the purview of foreign aid legislation Public Law 480 or the Agricultural Trade and Development Act, the aid program and relief operation conducted by the League of Red Cross Societies. It also examines the strategic and political importance of natural disaster relief in the early Cold War era U.S. foreign relations.
- Subjects
ELBE River (Czech Republic &; Germany); DANUBE River; HUMANITARIAN assistance; AMERICAN humanitarian assistance; FLOODS; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on disaster relief; FOREIGN relations of the United States, 1945-1989; UNITED States politics &; government, 1945-1989; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Diplomatic History, 2016, Vol 40, Issue 5, p893
- ISSN
0145-2096
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1093/dh/dhv053