The Quaker Star Under Seven Flags, 1917-1927Between the years 1917 and 1927, the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia worked with agencies of seven governments to bring help to civilian victims of the first world war. This small private committee held fast to its original conviction that relief out to be administered to sufferers of famine and plaguenot from political motivations but because such help was right, humane, and necessary. John Forbes's study The Quaker Star Under