INTERNATIONAL RELIEF

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 73, Issue 6282, 16 September 1946, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL RELIEF

NEED AS GREAT AS EVER Mr Harry T. Silcoek, Corso’s official full-time representative at the recent Unrra Geneva Conference has cabled urging Corso to redouble its efforts for fear of temporary interruption in the change-over from Unrra emergency relief to the United Nations longer term rehabihtation policy. He affirms that the deepest need of the present critical period is the upholding of moral standards as the true basis of peace, which principle was put forward at Geneva by the Hon. P. Noel-Baker, British Minister of State, and the leader of the United Kingdom delegation. This, Mr Silcock states, intensifies the ilrgency for Corso to maintain the supply, of practical men and women dedicated to self-sacri-ficial service, and he stresses that China’s needs are paramount to-day. This view is also held by the-Council of British Societies for Relief Abroad. (Cobsra). Mr Harry T. Silcock is an Englishman who has had 30 years’ experience of China, many of these years being spent in China itself, working in international missionary and relief work for the British Friends Service Council, and he will be remembered by many for his visit to the Dominion in 1944. Corso is therefore appealing for funds, not only to maintain its New Zealand Relief Unit in Greece, but also to respond to the invitation just received for relief personnel to be sent to the International Relief Committee in China, and the Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Donations, will be welcomed by local Corso Committees, or simply addressed “Corso, Wellington.”