Scope and Contents During World War I but prior to military involvement, the United States sent aid in other ways to the French, Belgian, and British troops and citizens. One initiative, put together by future President Herbert Hoover, known as the Commission for Relief in Belgium, sent sacks of flour to Belgium and parts of Northern France. In return, the citizens who received these sacks would then decorate them and send them back to America. Sometimes painted, other times embroidered, and even made...