HUNGRY POLISH CHILDREN
SIR,—The Times correspondent in Warsaw states that, as a result of Mr. Hoover's enquiries, it has been established that millions of Polish children are sub-normal from undernourishment and must have better food at once. At the same time I managed to get a copy of a Polish daily paper, published in Poland, in which I found a note on the tragi: position of Polish children. Out of t,loo,000 orphans, only 3o,00c
have so far been cared for by the Government. Over i,000,000 are unable to attend schools. Over 500,000 have never begun to have any education at all. This question has nothing to do with politics. It is simply one of common humanity, which must be of interest to people everywhere, including this country, in view of the terrible loss of human lives in Europe during the war. Can, therefore, a scheme be worked out for the admission of these Polish children, who are left without any help or protection, to Allied countries, in groups, for a period of six months, so that they may get proper nourishment and a chance to regain something of the happiness of normal children? Such an act would contribute enormously towards the restoration of the war-ravaged population of Europe to a peacetime level. Unless an immediate decision is reached on this painful, tragic matter these children will either perish or become a permanent burden on any community in which they will live.—I am, 43 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh Polish Press Agency.
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