INTRODUCTION
zerland, for the reason that personal contact with these countries during the latter years of the war was most difficult and information is only now slowly filtering in. In these places, however, devoted Scientists have been administering the funds of the Committee wisely and helpfully and doing great good.
The information contained in the section of the report devoted to Finance is most gratifying and indicates that many willing hands make any task a light and joyous one, and the stories of personal experiences in the concluding section will make us all glad.
These various and widely separated activities are brought together in this report and, as far as possible, correlated and arranged so that each section fits into the story chronologically.
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