From iron-curtained Bulgaria the U.N.'s International Children's Emergency Fund at Lake Success last week received a poem in praise of milk. It was written by an eleven-year-old girl, Marche Dobreva, inmate of Sofia's Michena Greza Orphanage and one of 3,500,000 children in twelve European nations receiving supplemental food from the fund.
Marche wrote:
Come quickly to the dining room,
You who have overslept.
If there were no milk
I'd be tempted to sleep on—
A cup of fresh milk
Is drunk with great delight,
And that's why, at this time,
We thank you, United Nations.
In the open window,
The sun shines through
A cloud of dust that is rising.
But we don't mind,
Because...
