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A feeding program has been started in a number of cities in China where the work of expansion depends upon additional funds. Eight or nine other countries and a number of British territories in the Far East are on the agenda. You might be interested to know that in Palestine and neighboring countries. this organization is bringing help to more than a quarter of a million mothers and children among the refugees in combat areas. Besides this work. the program includes mass vaccinations against tuberculosis. children have been inoculated in six European countries. and this program is to be expanded in other countries. especially outside of Europe during the present year. Only on a personal visit among the thousands of expellees and refugees in foreign countries does one actually receive the real significance oi the importance of the work of the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund. Only on a personal visit among the children suffering from malnutrition and tuberculosis in the crowded barracks can one really realize the importance of this supplemental and direct feeding. While conditions are reported somewhat better during this summer. the coming winter will again bring terrible hardship to thousands of mothers and children.