Committee for the Relief of Belgium

Great Britain, on the other hand, grew reluctant about the work of the CRB. Lord Kitchener—hero of the Boer War and the face on the famous recruiting poster—and Winston Churchill, whom Hoover would always intensely dislike, led a military faction that regarded feeding Belgians as "a positive military disaster," since it released the Germans from that obligation. Churchill called the stubborn Hoover a "son of a bitch."

• Herbert Hoover
  • p. 82 (Easton Press, 1996)

In a communication to the State Department that October [1915], Bates charged Hoover with violating the century-old Logan Act that forbade any American to deal directly with belligerents. In a sense, the charge was valid; the CRB flew its own flag and made contracts with belligerents somewhat comparable to treaties.

• Herbert Hoover
  • p. 89 (Easton Press, 1996)