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...dapper little man with a lisp and a limp walked into an UNRRA office in Germany and showed his credentials. He was Ludger Dionne,* first-term member of the Canadian House of Commons from St. Georges, in Quebec's Beauce County and he was in Germany with the approval of the Canadian Government and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. What he wanted made UNRRA officials blink: 100 girls, preferably Poles...
...explained his needs to UNRRA officials. The 100 girls he wanted for his mill must be Roman Catholics and unmarried virgins. (An Army chaplain talked him out of the second requirement.) Once he got them to St. Georges, he promised, he would house them at Le Foyer, teach them about Canada, pay them the legal minimum of 20? an hour. He plans to spend $42,500 to fly the girls to Canada. "I can't wait for boats," says Ludger Dionne...
During the war Author John Fischer,* an associate editor of Harper's, studied Soviet affairs for the Board of Economic Warfare; in 1946 he spent about two months in the Ukraine as a member of the UNRRA mission. As if to answer former UNRRA colleagues who attacked "inaccuracies" in his Harper's articles, he admits that he hardly qualifies as a full-fledged Soviet expert. But he thinks he learned why the Russians act as they do, and puts his case plainly and without rancor...
...Ukraine, Fischer writes, he saw little of the conspiratorial bitterness generally supposed to pervade the Soviet Union. "Nowhere have I ever met more generous, kindly folk, nor any who behaved with such instinctive courtesy." Members of the UNRRA mission rode about in their own automobiles as they chose, "nor did anyone ever try to prevent us talking to people on the streets." Workers in factories arid on farms were obviously short of comforts, and grumbled about hard times. But the grumbling was "not much different from that of American consumers who are fed up with food shortages and house hunting...
What can be done? UNRRA, the American Red Cross, Europe's handful of doctors have failed to stop the white plague's spread. This month one of Europe's smallest countries, Denmark, will launch a brave try. Its weapon: BCG vaccine (TIME, Nov. 11), which in Danish tests has reduced the T.B. rate to one-seventh that among the unvaccinated. In the next few weeks Danish Red Cross teams, each consisting of a doctor, two nurses and a secretary, will go to Warsaw, Budapest and Rendsburg, Germany, to begin vaccinating their populations, children first...