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Show Assistance For Children In Europe Planned The United Nations' appeal for children is to be staged in February. Febru-ary. Already committees in thirty-five thirty-five countries are being formed and it is hoped that the undertaking under-taking will be sponsored in all of the fifty-seven members of the United Nations. Chester Bowles, chairman of the Inter Advisory committee, points out that thousands of children, under the age of fifteen, in the war-devastated countries of Europe Eur-ope and Asia will not survive until funds collected in February can be put to use. To explain the magnitude of the need, Mr. Bowles said his committee com-mittee estimates that "462,000,000 children, spread across the earth, need help so urgently that a vast number of them, even with the most wholehearted effort on our part, have little hope of survival." The chairman of the committee says it will cost $1,470,000,000 to provide one extra hot meal a day for six months to the 230,000,000 children within reach of outside aid. Many of them can expect no help from governmental sources or volunteer agencies, according to Mr. Bowles, who says that the problem of disease is coupled with that of malnutrition. |