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Show Togoland's UN Misionaries Lessons in international understanding un-derstanding are being taught tc native villages by enthusiastic members of the Togoland United Nations Association who make their rounds on foot over jungle jun-gle trails. The story of these 20th century cen-tury missionaries is told in a letter let-ter received by the World Federation Fed-eration of United Nations Asso-I Asso-I ciations in Geneva. Togoland recently re-cently became the first United Nations trust territory to form a UN association. The association, in turn, set up a youth commission to visit the villages of this African country coun-try where railroads are almost unknown. Three members re-. re-. cently covered 560 square miles i on foot, carrying their precious posters and educational material mater-ial on their heads. The commission's com-mission's secretary, with an un- derstandable pioneering spirit, 1 wrote: "At present, the country has no lawyers, no doctors, no hospitals hos-pitals and no good water. Today our enemies which hold us back are not walls but the two-fold tormentor, ignorance and illiteracy. illit-eracy. "Bushy and mountainous are the paths'we tread, tedious and risky the journeys under the heat of the tropical sun, falling occasionally on ravenous snakes some 8 or 10 feet long basking along our path. "When the rains come on, we have to give up the raincoats for the protection of the United Nations posters and leave ourselves our-selves to a thorough wash." |