model for writing the history of other European assistance from Russia and the medical missions regions, amongst them Vojvodina, whose capital that came to Serbia to provide medical assistance is Novi Sad, which is a twin city to Timisoara. – The Mission of the Petrograd Slavic Humanitarian Society headed by Dr. Nikolay Slobodan Bjelica Ivanovich Sichev and other Russian medical doi: 10.19090/i.2019.30.310-312 missions. The greatest portion of the first part of © Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, 2019 the book involves the British medical assistance ISTRAŽIVANJA – JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCHES 30, 310–312 by the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service headed by Dr. Elsie Maud Inglis. These were located in Serbia, Russia, Dobruja, the Slavica Popović Filipović, The Great War Salonica Front, and in France. As well as the Revisited, Valjevo: Istorijski arhiv, 2017, 273 Serbian Relief Fund Units in: Skopje (two units), pages. Kragujevac, Belgrade, Požarevac, Corfu, the (Slavica Popović Filipović, Svedočanstva iz Salonica Front, Corsica, and Tunisia – both Prvog svetskog rata, Valjevo: Istorijski arhiv, during the war, and after, and other British 2017, 273 str.) medical missions. The rest of the first part of the book relates to medical missions and assistance The history of the Great War has become even from France, the United States, Canada, more enhanced in the Centennial Year since the , New Zealand, Ireland, and Japan. end of the War thanks to the publication of the The second part of the book relates to the book ‘The Great War Revisited’ by Slavica humanitarians, volunteers, and philanthropists, Popović Filipović. According to the author, ‘the who came to help the Serbian people, such as: book is dedicated to heroes, heroines, humanists, Mihajlo Pupin, Dr. Elsie Maud Inglis, Mr. John and philanthropists from all around the world, and Frothingham and Mrs Jelena Lozanić Frothingham, in memory and great respect for all charitable Sir Thomas Lipton, Lady Paget and Sir Ralph deeds and noble sacrifices made to the Serbian Spencer Paget, Dr. Ludvik Hirschfeld, Dr. people in the most turbulent time in the First Catherine MacPhail, Dr. Isobel Emslie Lady World War’. Hutton, Mrs Mabel St. Clair Stobart, Madam The author has written the history of foreign Mabel Grouitch and Mr. Slavko Grouitch, Dr. medical missions and philanthropy in Serbia Rosalie Slaughter Morton, Dr. William Hunter, Dr. during the First World War on 258 pages. The Edward William Ryan, Dr. Sergei Kvantilianovich revision (pages 259–260) was done by Velibor Sofoterov, Dr. Nikolai Ivanovich Sichev, Mrs Vidić, a historian from Valjevo, the translations Alexandra Pavlovna Hartvig, Honorable Evelina were done by Bob Filipović, while the author’s Haverfield, Miss Olive Kelso King and Sir George words of gratitude follow up on pages 261–262. Kelso King, Miss Annie Christitch, Mrs Hanna The references are on the final pages (263–273). Henkin Hardy, Miss Flora Sandes, Mrs Helen The photo illustration of the Scottish Women’s Harley Jenkins, Lady Cornelia Wimbourne, who Hospital on the front and back cover give an sent help or came to Serbia all the way from the additional dimension to the text inside. This Pacific and the Atlantic to the Balkans, during the monographic book is divided into two discrete most perilous period of the First World War. parts that are complementarily interrelated. In addition to all the above named, this The first part of the book, The Foreign chapter also includes passages about the typhoid Medical Missions in Serbia during the First epidemic: ‘The Terrible Truth about Serbia’, by World War, encompasses medical assistance from Sir Thomas Lipton, The Springtime in Vranje Russia, France, the United States, Greece, After the War by Dr. Isabel Emslie, Lady Hutton, Holland, Denmark, the Czech Republic, and the All Women Doctors, Hospital Under Shellfire and British hospitals and individual humanitarians. the Serbian Character by Dr. Agnes Bennett, Special attention is given to the medical Australian doctor, Experiences in Serbia, 1914–

312 1915, by Dr. James Morrison, the Report by New Elsie Maud Inglis, the founder and head of Zealand doctor Mary Blair on the Voyage of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, the Honorary First Group of Serbian Refugees to Corsica, a Secretary of the Scottish Federation of Women’s letter of Mihailo Đokić, Our People on Corsica, Suffragettes Society, and the first woman doctor a report by Miss Mary Josephine Bedford about to be awarded the Serbian Order of White Eagle. the Serbs at the Salonica Front, as well the Diary The Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin, a of the Australian nurse – Jane Edith MacKay. famous Australian writer, in her text written at the The book by Slavica Popović Filipović lists Salonica front and dedicated to the Serbs ‘Ne the names of great world humanitarians and mari ništa’ noted: ‘Serbs are worthy of preserving physicians who, by coming to help at such a for eugenic, if from no other purpose, but for the decisive and turbulent time, contributed to Serbia genetics. Serbs are the most hospitable people on becoming a cosmopolitan state. At the same place earth… In spite of everything, Serbs had not lost and time there gathered such outstanding and elite loving kindness, courage, cheerfulness or a sense medical doctors and numerous humanists, writers, of humour, but the shadow on their faces and chroniclers, like: Rudolph Archibald Reiss, compared with the brightness on the Canadians, Henri Barbusse, John Read, Fortier Jones, Mrs showed that hope, which rarely be killed outright, Mabel Stobart, Lady Margaret Leila Paget, Miss was at least very thickly clouded.’ Francesca Mary Wilson, Stella Miles Franklin, Lady Paget, a volunteer nurse, and the Head who as participants and eyewitnesses of hardships of the First Serbian Relief Fund Unit in Skopje, in the wartime period wrote valuable accounts of wrote some of the most touching accounts of the the terrible suffering of Serbs in the Great War. history of Serbian women: ‘One of our most Despite all the hardship and suffering the book trivial statements about women refers to the fact The Great War Revisited proves, according to the that trouble seems to bring out their best qualities. author, that ‘there is no oblivion in the history’. Perhaps that is another reason why Serbia’s We see the proof of those words in the postage history is not only a history of crushed hopes and stamps ‘The British Heroines of the First World sacrifice without end and without worthy reward, War in Serbia’, published by the ‘Post Office of but a history of great women. All down the path Serbia’, which included: Miss Flora Sandes, Dr. of their story they form a long line – like the Elsie Maud Inglis, Dr. Katherine Stuart MacPhail, gallery of Mestrović’s caryatides – and when the Dr. Isobel Galloway Hutton, Dr. Elizabeth Ross, road plunges into gloom, it seems that it is they and the Honourable Evelyn Haverfield, and thus who carry the lamps that light up the darkness paid respect to these courageous women. from one generation to another until better days.’ The Second Part of the Book contains highly Personal accounts of Mrs Mabel Stobart valuable written accounts and memoirs of the represent historical records of the participation of humanist volunteers, who thanks to the author’s women in the First World War. In her book The diligent research and the translations by Bob Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere she left Filipović have been brought back from the past to an interesting account about women doctors: ‘I see the light of day again and thus made a was a little surprised at the matter-of-fact way in significant contribution to uncovering new facts which Serbian men all accepted women doctors and historical truths. The chapter begins with a and surgical operations by women. Indeed, they quotation from Dr. : ‘You see we are highly approved, because women were, they said, in a very sad country, but it is the pluckiest more gentle, and yet as effective as men doctors.’ country in Europe, without exception. Here they This book by Slavica Popović Filipović are with their best men perishing on every side, uncovers new and updated information about and they make no complaint, and never think for philanthropists and medical missions from the a moment of giving in…’ The value of this Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and the Czech translation is in the fact that when this book was Republic, which had been little known before in published it was a centennial of the death of Dr. historical records. Detailed information about

313 medical history in the Balkans provides records of historian and professor of contemporary history at numbers of foreign doctors, nurses, and other the University of Milan, Marco Cuzzi. Based on hospital staff, their location, numbers of medical rich archival material documents, the subject of this examinations, surgical operations, hospital research is the policy of Italian Masonry according treatments, etc. The book elaborates the British to the idea of Italy’s entry into the war on the side Medical Missions that were located in Kragujevac, of the Allies, but also its overall attitude toward the Belgrade, Požarevac, Skopje and Vrnjačka Banja. horrors and difficulties of the First World War. Also just uncovered are the first mentions of the The strong rootedness in the ideals of three Irish women who worked under Mrs Mabel Risorgimento did not discourage the representa- Stobart in the Third Serbian Relief Fund Unit in tives of Italian Masonry that with the flow of time Kragujevac. This invites further research into the and the complication of European imperialist Irish medical help in Serbia. politics at the end of the 19thcentury, they turned to The last passage in the Book (p. 258) records the means of ‘just war’ (guerra giusta), which history, memories, and a message: ‘Here we are, implied the general increase of the Italian 100 years after these historical events. Is irredentist projects. This gradual radicalization of everything lost and gone, or is the recovery of the leading Italian mason lodge – Great Orient of these great witness accounts able to ensure that Italy (Grande Oriente d 'Italia) – shouldbe viewed the history of certain events can be preserved and in the context of the pressures made by socialists, maintained in future memories of them?’ nationalists and the Catholic, clerical public – the The author in her book The Great War three groups whose actions the Masons in the Revisited, besides moving and reaching the new socially and politically divided Italian society were limits of knowledge of the history of medicine most concerned about. The author underlines, and philanthropy, also proves that Clio is an especially in the first chapter entitled La unlimited source of discoveries, which enables masoneria nella neutralità (1914), the difficulty of the historical truth to see the daylight even a the masonry to prove to Salandra’s government in century since its origin. the first months of the war its inconspicuous and legalistic character. Their work was reflected in the Milena Žikić collection of volunteers and the organization of doi: 10.19090/i.2019.30.312-314 committees (comitati massonici) that would © Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, 2019 become committees for civilian assistance to the ISTRAŽIVANJA – JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL RESEARCHES 30, 312–314 families of the wounded and dead. Italian masons also organized the propaganda and mobilization committees through lodges in Italian cities. In this Marco Cuzzi, Dal Risorgimento al Mondo chapter it is explained that, for example, the GOI Nuovo. La Massoneria italiana nella Prima maintained good ties with Hungarian and German guerra mondiale, Milano: Mondadori Education obediences despite the policy of pressure on the S. p. A, 2017, 406 pages. Italian government to enter the war. The book is chronologically divided into four An uncompromising loyalty to the universal major chapters which follow the intertwining of principles of world masonry embodied in war events with the events in which the leadership anticlericalism and cosmopolitanism, or skillfully of the Masonry was drawn into the years 1914– adapted to the current, unequivocal foreign policy 1918. Through a multitude of archival documents – itis something necessary to be understood in the and official journals of the two leading and most complexity of Italian Masonry, its aims, intentions, influential Italian lodges, the aforementioned activities and plans during the First World War. All GOI, and Serenissima Gran Loggia Nazionale this is covered in interesting study entitled Dal (SGLN), an emphasis is placed on press and Risorgimento al Mondo Nuovo. La Massoneria newspaper articles. The author describes, italiana nella Prima guerra mondiale by the especially in the chapter titled Intervento e

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