Winter in Spain

Winter in Spain

Quakers from the United States and Britain assisted the relief work for children during the Spanish Civil War. This pamphlet, published in London in 1938 by the Friends Service Council, is one of the fund-raising propaganda leaflets sent to British populations. In order to provoke sympathy and a sense of responsibility from the British people, who were physically outside of the war and whose country had declared a “non-intervention” policy, this pamphlet includes statistics of how a small amount of donations could have a major impact, as well as photos of happy children benefiting from relief work. While the statistics reminded people of the value of their help and thus their responsibility to help, the hopeful eyes of the children in the photos leads both British audiences and contemporary readers in the United States alike to appreciate the real meanings of Quaker relief work: besides the material benefits, it is the invaluable warmth and love that brought hope to the war-ravaged nation.

London: Friends Service Council

1938

Rosalind Xu

Pamplet