UNICEF IN ASIA
Kenworthy, Leonard S.
UNICEF in Asia Half the World's Children: a diary of unicef at work in asia, by S. M. Keeny. Association Press. 254 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Leonard S. Kenworthy THE person who picks up this book...
...As he criss-crosses the continent of Asia he records the shocking story of disease and malnutrition and the thrilling story of UNICEF's efforts to combat malaria, tuberculosis, yaws, and other diseases and to lay the foundations for longtime local efforts to provide better living through better health...
...WILLIAM L. NEUMANN teaches history at Goucher College and this fall will teach a seminar on American diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins University...
...About 6,000 centers for mothers and children have been equipped and are being supplied with drugs and milk...
...The anti-malaria campaigns that UNICEF helped to start have expanded, largely with U.S...
...His new book, "Isolation and Security," will be published soon...
...has done little or nothing to justify its existence...
...They are staggering even to those who have known a little about the work of UNICEF...
...LEONARD S. KENWORTHY, associate professor of education at Brooklyn College, wrote "Introducing Children to the World...
...or to those who discuss the U.N...
...with their neighbors and friends...
...Keeny's book should be lent to those who believe the U.N...
...The author takes the reader on many trips across Asia, traveling by airplane, ship, boat, jeep, and on at least one occasion on the back of a fellow human being across a swollen stream...
...he will profit by the cumulative effect of this personal record of UNICEF in Asia, as told in a modified diary form by the regional director for that vast area...
...He visits clinics and hospitals, feeding centers and schools, health stations and dispensaries, and the homes of Asians, prominent and inconspicuous...
...WILLIAM Mc-CANN edited the recently published paperback, "Ambrose Bierce's Civil War...
...This volume adds a great deal to the literature on the U.N...
...which is known to the "little people" of the world because they have been touched by it and their lives changed by its efforts...
...But the more patient reader will be rewarded for his efforts...
...Figures are kept to the minimum and are tabulated in a concise and clear form as a summary of the efforts of UNICEF in Asia...
...It is the story of the part of the U.N...
...work abroad or hope to do so, this highly personal account will provide some idea of the problems which may be encountered, many of the procedures to be followed, and some of the progress which can rightfully be expected...
...At the end of their seventh year "the total tests against tuberculosis have reached 148 million, with about 52 million vaccinations...
...For those who THE REVIEWERS HORACE M. GRAY is a professor of economics at the University of Illinois and co-author of "Monopoly in America...
...Examinations for yaws have totaled 68 million, with about 6.4 million cases treated...
...Reviewed by Leonard S. Kenworthy THE person who picks up this book and reads at random will probably be unimpressed...
...aid, to protect nearly half of the 300 million people who need it...
...At first it seems choppy, disjointed, and lacking in focus...
...This is not a great literary masterpiece, but it is a warm and moving human document of the most successful part of the United Nations...
...For two years he was in charge of the Education for International Understanding section of UNESCO...
...Its vignettes of life in Asia and its accounts of remarkable progress in combating disease should be helpful to those who speak and teach and lead discussions on the U.N...
...Now we need a full length book on the work of UNICEF around the world and not just in Asia...
...and its agencies and becomes one of the few accounts of the work of UNICEF...
Vol. 21 • August 1957 • No. 8
