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Charles Edison (see cut), ex-Governor of New Jersey, son of the late, great Thomas Alva Edison, was elected national chairman by United China Relief. As head of the fund which in 1943 sent $8,683,870 to war-torn China, onetime Secretary of the Navy Edison succeeds the late Manhattan Lawyer Frederick Hill (Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine &) Wood. Said Edison: "The Chinese people have purchased time for all their allies with space of their country and blood of their people...
...words could not, the camera's eye recorded the story of a people (see cut). Somewhere in war-torn Italy, planes dived low. In this instance, they were Nazi; they might have been Allied. In their wake, a gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden-and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation...
UNRRA's international health policy will consist of helping war-torn governments to get their own health services working. This will be done by providing "equipment and supplies, personnel, expert advice, facilities for technical training...
...could hardly be otherwise. Delegates from 44 nations had sat down at a green baize-covered table to work out a democratic formula for relief to war-torn countries containing 500 million people, where human wreckage is on a scale almost too huge to conceive...
...many of us think cynically of government these days in terms of the war-torn agencies such...