International Relief Association
The International Relief Association (IRA) founded in Germany in 1931 by the German Communist Party Opposition (KPO) and the Socialist Workers Party (SAP), to aid victims of state repression. It was forced to move to Paris when the Nazis came to power in April 1933.[1]
An American support committee was formed by Jay Lovestone in July 1933. Although Lovestone's main aim to help the KPO, he ensured the organisation was endorsed by a range of progressive luminaries.[2]
Funding from the ILGWU was used to fund refugees, some of it was also secretly diverted to the KPOs resistance activities in Germany.[3]
the IRA mered with the Emergency Rescue Committee in 1942, initially as the International Relief and Rescue Committee, later known as the International Rescue Committee.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.242.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, pp.8-9.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.10.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.
