CZECH CHILDREN
'APPEAL FOR VITAL FOODS
INCIPIENT TUBERCULOSIS RIFE (■Rec. 12.20 p.m.) PRAGUE, Nov. 5. “Help us feed the children,” sa.id the Foreign Minister, Dr Masaryk, in a personal appeal to Britain and America to rush fats and meats to Czechoslovakia. He added that they had 700,000 of the most’ badly-fed children, of whom 50 per cent, already had incipient tuberculosis. The Czechs had
less than tliree months’ supply of fats. Children were going into hospital daily with incipient tuberculosis. Dr Masaryk said the Czechs were not dissatisfied with the help received from Unrra, which had already saved them from the disaster of starvation and epidemics by rushing in foodstuffs and medicines.
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Evening Star, Issue 25633, 6 November 1945, Page 5
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