The problems of child welfare went unattended because governments. including our own. were too preoccupied with aid-. ing the war. Instead of assisting those affected by the war. This appalling record of neglect which has now been so poignantly captured in the NBC report. prompted the Subcom* mittee on Refugees to dispatch in March a special study mission to assess child * welfare needs. and to recommend a series of specific steps to meet these needs. These recommendations were examined in hearings last month. and because I felt they demanded the immediate concern and active intervention by the highest officials in our Government. I addressed letters to the President and to the Secretary of State detailing the study missions report. subsequently. members of the study mission met with officials in AID and elsewhere.
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