American Relief Aid and the Spanish Civil War

Appendix: The Green Report

COMPLETE LIST OF AID ORGANIZATIONS REGISTERED WITH STATE DEPARTMENT AND AMOUNTS OF AID AND EXPENSES ACCORDING TO THE GREEN REPORT ORGANIZATION (LOCATION AND DATE OF INCORPORATION TOTAL RELIEF PUBLICITy IF AFTER MAy 1, 1937) COLLECTIONS EXPENSES COSTS Medical Bureau and North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy (New York City) 805,799.78 573,215.81 249,342 Spanish Societies to Aid Spain (Brooklyn) 374,815.27 289,899.02 32,345.37 The Brooklyn Tablet (Newspaper) 6,148.56 29,776.45 None America Spanish Relief Fund (NyC) 89,086.62 73,570.49 15,422.01 American Friends Service Committee (Philadelphia) 218,612.51 141,234.52 50,939.99 Comité Popular Democrático de Sócorro a España (Tampa) 148,090.95 133,810.53 8,829.34 Central Spanish Relief Committee For Republican Spain (Washington, DC) 108,409.25 96,231.97 7,664.95 Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (NYC, June 4, 1937) 215,456.37 114,544.62 72,394.24 Ben Leider Memorial Fund (NYC, June 22, 1937) 8,138.76 6,531.35 2,681.99 Appendix 129 130 Appendix ORGANIZATION (LOCATION AND DATE OF INCORPORATION TOTAL RELIEF PUBLICITy IF AFTER MAy 1, 1937) COLLECTIONS EXPENSES COSTS United Libertarian Organizations (NYC, June 22, 1937) 1,099.34 1,103.50 None Trade Union Relief For Spain (NYC, June 23, 1937) 32,903.97 21,040.00 5,236.90 Acción Democrata Española (San Francisco, June 28, 1937) 11,628.94 10,864.84 615.45 Auxiliary Committee For Aid and Assistance of Spanish People (Canton, OH July 14, 1937) 16,673.41 15,859.54 25.00 American Friends of Spanish Democracy (NYC, July 22, 1937) 15,850.22 5,059.86 10,701.45 Cooperative League of the USA (NYC) 422.46 422.46 None International Anti-Fascist Solidarity (NYC) 81,565.71 78,585.85 2,875.80 American League for Peace and Democracy (NYC) 6,043 5,789.93 251.23 War Resisters League (NYC) 189.79 189.79 None National Spanish Relief Association (NyC, Nov 1937) 72,179.41 63,784.65 None Spanish Child Welfare Association of America (NYC Dec 17, 1937) 46,892.37 26,928.00 17,524.75 Basque Sheepherders’ Overall Dance Assoc. (Boise, ID Dec 20, 1937) 1,366.00 1,104.00 262 Agrupacion Hispano Gallega (Newark, NJ Jan 24, 1938) 3,333.37 2,790.40 477.59 131 Appendix ORGANIZATION (LOCATION AND DATE OF INCORPORATION TOTAL RELIEF PUBLICITy IF AFTER MAy 1, 1937) COLLECTIONS EXPENSES COSTS Spanish Nationalist Relief Committee (NyC, Feb 10, 1937) 15,628.31 2,859.35 2,057.92 Comite de Ayuda a Los Desvalidos a la España Leal (Manila, Philippines, Oct 28, 1938) 2,933.40 2,185.95 406.2 Committee for Aid to Civilians in the Territory Loyal to the Spanish Republic of Spain (Manila, Nov. 18, 1938) 894.75 712.50 57.50 Auxilio Social (Manila, Jan 7, 1939) 12,506.97 5,880.68 2,349.1 Sociedades Hispanas Aliadas (San Francisco, Feb 13, 1939) 921.22 637.86 162.45 Registrants who have ceased To operate and whose registrations Have been revoked 58,690.46 28,645.67 31,707.65 Totals 2,356,214.53 1,733,259.59 523,004.05 Note that in some cases amounts include collections prior to May 1, 1937, but not always. Additionally, adding up the numbers will sometimes show a surplus which is the unexpended amount as of March 31, 1939. The total of unexpended collections for all groups is $121,325.56 and excludes expenses that may have gone out in March. MBNAC claimed it had shipped to Spain contributions valued at $257,301.62 during the duration of May 1, 1937 to March 21, 1939, so the values of aid before that time are not included here. Brooklyn Tablet Reported receiving $36,800.05 prior to May 1, 1937 and expending 12,282.78 of that. 132 Appendix The FALB of course is not really contributing to Spain, but to Americans. Spanish Child Welfare Association stated shipping contributions in kind of $2000 from April 1, 1938 to March 31, 1939. Spanish Nationalist Relief stated that $4,835 was contributed by the committee itself for office expenses and not relief. Pro-Franco organizations are in bold type. ...