Medicine: Suffering Little Children

The problem was so big and so basic that men on both sides of the Iron Curtain got together last week to discuss it. They were worried about the 30 million children in Europe who are not getting enough to eat. For the moment, politics was put aside.

The delegates came to Paris from twelve European nations that are getting aid from the U.N.'s International Children's Emergency Fund (an UNRRA successor), which is helping feed 4,000,000 children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. The anti-Communist Italian delegate interpreted for the Bulgarian comrade. On the Fund's staff are men of 13 nationalities; the director...

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