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They confront some appalling facts. Most of the human race cannot read or write. Each year, 300 million suffer from malaria. The world's population is increasing by 100,000 a day, but of its 900 million children, two-thirds are underfed...
Belgian brains and Bantu muscle have thrust back the forest and checked the dread diseases (yaws, sleeping sickness, malaria) which sapped the Bantu's strength. In some areas, the Congo's infant-mortality rate is down to 60 per 1,000-better than Italy's figure. More than 1,000,000 children attend primary and secondary schools-40% of the school-age population (compared with less than 10% in the French empire...
...about 100,000 "treatments" given by Filipino doctors since they first came to help the Vietnamese last fall. In a country where the French colonials only got around to training 150 Vietnamese doctors, the Filipinos are making headway with insufficient equipment against such diseases as smallpox, malaria and beriberi. Fifty-eight Filipino volunteers-doctors, dentists, nurses and social workers-are doing what they can. "It is an inspiring thing." said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his address to the U.S. last week, "to see the Philippine people, who only lately achieved their own independence, now turning to help...
...Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a geological formation that often indicates sulphur. It took six years before they could prove their hunch. Starting to drill near San Cristóbal in 1942, they were slowed down by the war, by an unfriendly and suspicious local population, even by the malaria-filled jungle itself, where torrential rains turn everything into a quagmire six months of the year. The first two wells were dry holes, but the third brought in sulphur. By 1947 the Bradys had proven out 3,000,000 tons, and turned over their concession to the newly organized Mexican Gulf Sulphur...
...best. Before, Communist terrorists bad aroused the villagers to murder landlords and take the land; now, with the Communists apparently gone, an inspired team of an Indian administrator, a U. S. technical adviser, and village level workers, are achieving not only increased rice production, new wells, sanitation, and malaria control, but more important, a new way of thinking...