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Show Starvation Faced By 462,000,000 Of World's Children The United Nations' appeal for children is to be staged in February. Already committees in thirty-five countries are being formed and it is hoped that the undertaking will be sponsored in all of the fifty-seven members of the United Nations. Chester Bowles, chairman of the International Advisory Committee, Com-mittee, points out that thousands of children, under the age of 15, in the war-devastated countries of Europe and Asia will not. survive sur-vive until funds collected " in February can be put to use. To explain the magnitude of the need, Mr. Bowles said his committee estimates that "462,-000,000 "462,-000,000 children, spread across the earth, need help so urgently that a vast number of them, even with the most whole-hearted ef-fotr ef-fotr on our part, have little hope of survival," The chairman of the Committee Commit-tee 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 volun-teer agencies, according to Mr. Bowles, who says that the problem prob-lem of disease is coupled with that of malnutrition. A reading of these figures does not impress the mind with the enormous misfortune that has come to the children of the world as a result of the war fought by their elders. It is almost impossible impos-sible to imagine that, in a modern mod-ern world and present-day civilization, civi-lization, hundreds of millions of children "have little hope of survival sur-vival despite the earnest and generous effort of other peoples to extend help to them." I |