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...United Nations' World Health Organization. But in Terai, in the far-off foothills of the Himalayas, members of a WHO team journeyed by elephant from village to village, crawled into thatched huts spraying DDT to fight an outbreak of malaria. WHO workers were aboard river boats plying the Rhine from the North Sea to Switzerland, giving boatmen examinations and treatments for venereal diseases which had been, carried from country to country. In Shanghai, a WHO nurse kept up a tuberculosis nursing program that had been started long before the Red armies overran China...
...zone of Germany to the French border, the Kremlin would have doubled its present industrial potential for supporting war. If, in terms of high-school algebra, it now takes x Western force to restrain Russia, it will take 2X Western force when the Russians have reached the Rhine...
...later years, old Adolphus began to spend more time abroad, kept in touch with St. Louis by cable from his luxurious "castle on the Rhine" (cable tolls often ran to more than $100 a day). In 1913, his son August Sr. took over the old family company...
...months ago loud caterwauling over the Saar arose on both sides of the Rhine: the French were reported ready to take formal, long-term control of the Saar mines. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson quieted the uproar with what seemed to be a confident announcement. The Saar question could not be settled by France alone, it had to wait on an allied peace treaty with Germany...
Prince Hubertus of Prussia, grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, landed in South Africa to begin a new life as a sheep farmer. "This is going to be a considerable change from my vineyards at Wiesbach on the Rhine," he told newsmen in Johannesburg, "but your country has a wonderful future. Germany today is not a very happy place...