- A World's Alliance secretary is compiling a list of books which will be sorted into circulating libraries and forwarded to prisoners assigned to labor detachments. The Association scoured Europe in search of pre-war books (which would receive faster approval from prison camp censors) in exotic languages (such as Russian, Serbian, and Georgian). Source: World's Alliance of YMCA's, International Year Book 1920, 1920, 39.
Source: World's Alliance of YMCA's, International Year Book 1920, 1920, 39.
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