Finnish Relief Fund

Herbert Hoover , Hendrik Willem van Loon and Fiorello H. La Guardia in Madison Square Garden on December 20, 1939.

The Finnish Relief Fund was a humanitarian aid organization initiated by former U.S. President Herbert Hoover in December 1939. It was intended to support Finland during the Winter War . By March 1940, it had raised 2.5 million US dollars . ^[1]

Hoover's campaign was advertised in 1,400 newspapers across the United States. The largest contributions came from private donors ($1.9 million), newspaper ads ($652,869), industrial companies ($318,188) and labor unions ($27,294). ^[2] The income from first screening of the film Gone with the Wind in the state of Washington was forwarded to the relief fund. ^[2]

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^ "Herbert Hoover's Food Relief Efforts - Finland" . Cornell College . Retrieved 25 December 2014 .
^ ^a ^b Winberg, Vesa (4 December 2014). "Yhdysvaltojen presidentti Herbert Hoover talvisodan sytyttya: "Meidan taytyy jalleen auttaa rauhaa rakastavia suomalaisia" " (in Finnish). YLE . Retrieved 25 December 2014 .

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Register of the Finnish Relief Fund Records, 1939-1946 . Online Archive of California.
Report to American donors : December 1939-July 1940. (1940) Archive.org.
Minnesota's Help to Finland. $150,000 Contributed to Finnish Relief in Statewide Drive Archived 2014-08-17 at the Wayback Machine Genealogia.fi.

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[1] "Herbert Hoover's Food Relief Efforts - Finland" . Cornell College . Retrieved 25 December 2014 .

[YLE-2] Winberg, Vesa (4 December 2014). "Yhdysvaltojen presidentti Herbert Hoover talvisodan sytyttya: "Meidan taytyy jalleen auttaa rauhaa rakastavia suomalaisia" " (in Finnish). YLE . Retrieved 25 December 2014 .

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