| Summary: | The substratum of humanitarian action in Norway, during and after the Spanish Civil War, is its deeply rooted pacifism. The Peace groups are thriving: Society of Friends, Grand Lodge, International Civil Service, Popular uprising against the War, Clarté, etc. Norway gives up receiving child colonies and focuses its assistance on help in Spain and France. Two Norwegian women, Nini Haslund and Alice Resch, illustrate, two facets of the commitment: in Spain, Nini Haslund, as Spania-Komiteen representative to the International Committee on Coordination and Information to Aid Republican Spain, supplies 300 colonies located in the Peninsula, including the Children’s Hospital Fridtjof Nansen in France, Alice Resch, as delegate of the Quakers, within the context of the International Commission for the Assistance of Spanish Child refugees, helps refugee children. Once the Second World War was over, Spania-Komiteen subsidizes organizations sponsored by the Government of the Spanish Republic in exile, such as dispensaries in Paris, Toulouse, Montauban, Bayonne, a colony in St. Raphael and summer holidays in Norway. Le substrat de l’action humanitaire de la Norvège, durant et après la guerre d’Espagne, est son pacifisme profond. Les associations pacifistes prospèrent : Société des Amis, Grande Loge, Service civil international, Soulèvement populaire contre la guerre, Clarté, etc. La Norvège renonce à recevoir des colonies d’enfants et concentre son aide en Espagne et en France. Deux Norvégiennes, Nini Haslund et Alice Resch, illustrent deux versants de l’engagement : en Espagne, N. Haslund, en tant que représentante du Spania-Komiteen au Comité international de coordination et d’information pour l’aide à l’Espagne républicaine, approvisionne 300 colonies de la Péninsule, dont l’hôpital pour enfants Fridtjof-Nansen en France, A. Resch, comme déléguée des quakers, dans le cadre de International Commission for the Assistance of Spanish Child refugees, assiste les enfants réfugiés. Une fois la Seconde Guerre mondiale ...
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