Eglantyne Jebb was a remarkable English woman who in 1919 was arrested and fined for protesting that the British blockade of Germany in the First World War was leading to widespread starvation of children in Germany and Austria. Jebb went to court and famously declared the principle that there is no such thing as an ‘enemy child’. This was a curious notion by the standards of the time. Later that year she set up an organisation in London called ‘Save the Children’, to send relief to children on the European continent.1 She went on to charter a cargo ship to transport 600 tons of …