Excerpt from The Journal of Accountancy, 1919, Vol. 27
The interlocking of the committees is about as follows:
The communal committees are represented in the regional committees. The regional committees are represented in the provincial and district committees.
Delegates from the provincial and district committees act as working members of the Comite National and Comite Francais respectively.
Some of the members of the Comite National arc members of the Comite Francais.
The C. R. B. is represented by delegates on both the Comite National and the Comite Francais.
Of the 7,000,000 inhabitants in Belgium, it has been estimated that 2,750,000 were found to be wholly or partly destitute as a result of the war and without resources with which to pay for food or clothing even if it existed in abundance. Inasmuch as the 2,300,000 inhabitants, as a whole, in the north of France arc being supplied from without and not paying anything back to Brussels in return, they must also be treated in the calculations as if they, too, were all destitute, although many who are able to do so are obligating themselves in one way or another to pay at the end of the war, and a good many are paying in communal money and some in French money.
Engaged in the work here there have been about 130 regional and over 2,500 communal distributing committees, and about 1,500 relief committees in Belgium. In the north of France there have been about 70 regional and 2,100 communal distributing committees.
At the start the outside world was practically asked to take up furnishing the bread supply for the whole nation, as a matter of benevolence. Later, certain relaxations came regarding financial transactions, and the work of provisioning the population developed along commercial lines, being completely separated from the actual benevolent work, so that those who had resources were able to pay and thus help to make the general burden easier. Belgian banks and institutions have furnished very large sums for the working capital of the provisioning department.
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