LETTER TO DR. HOWARD A. RUSK FROM HAROLD W. GLATTLY, M

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PROST T ICs 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 171.1-111Git AcademyI- of Sciences - National Rese?rch Council 2101 Constitution Avenue Washington 25, D.C. October 23, 1957 Dear Doctor Rusk: As a member of the Prosthetics Research Board of the National Academy of Scisnce...National Research Council you are familiar with * tremendous progress that has been achieved since World War II in the rehabilitation of our amputees through the Board's integrated and c ordinated Artificial Limb Program of research, development, applica- tion and education, Tens of thousands of amputees throughout the United States are today the beneficiaries of this national effort that has been supported by the Veterans Administration and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. While on the domestic front everything is going along well, you haveoften pointed out that a great need exists to carry the results of thLe research program to the countries of the free world in many of which there is a complete lack of prosthetics services available to their amputees. In the minutes of the last meeting of PRI is to be found the following statement which was concurred in by all members: "It was the sense of the Board that since there appears to be at present no positive program for conveying the re- sults of research, development and application in the field of prosthetics to our friends in the Free World, we are overlooking one of the strongest tools in international relations. The Board stands ready to assist in any practi- cable way.e In furtheranc. of this policy, the Board this past summer cooperated with the Committee on Prostheses, Braces and Technical Aids of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples in the conduct of the First International Prosthetics course in Copenhagen, Denmark. This course, which was attended by some 60 physicians, therapists, and prosthetists from 23 countries, clearly demonstrated a world- wide interest in improving proesthetics eervicea. Although the cost to the Prosthetics Research Board for this very successful meeting was only about $8,000, yet because of the restrictions that exist with respect to the expenditure of VA or HEW funds in ?verifies areas we experienced great difficulty in meeting this obligation. The fouits of this Program can therefore not be made available for the rehabilitation of amputees in other parts of the world until funds specifically designated for this purpose are obtained. Although our overseas proethetics program would be in the interest of service to the amputees, yet in performing this service the United States would receive a tremendous dividonlin the field of international good will. It is doubtful that there is any other area of overseas assistance in which so much can be accomplished with relatively small expenditures. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 1 - 411.049.L Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Dr. Howard A. Rusk - 2 - oct b r 23, 1957 / have discussed plans for the development of an overseas pxo8thetics program to be administered by Pla with the Chairman of the Board and with those individuals from the Program who partici- pated in the International Prosthetics Course at Copenhagen. The enclosed plan summarizes our thinking on this project. There is agreement that the Academy is in a position to undertake a program of this character by reason of its experience during the past 12 years in monitoring the Artificial Limb Program. A very close working arrangement would be effected with ISIFIC and its Committee on Prostheees, Braces and Technical Aids. This world-wide organi- zation would be of great assistance in this international prosthetics effort. The enclosed plan embodies the principle of initiating the program with a pilot test in an underdeveloped country that has been carefully selected through the medium of a survey team. Actual experience would thus be available as a basis for the development of future operations in other countries. In addition to the development of prosthetics services in underdeveloped calm- tries, the plan make provision for the furtherance of better liaison and cooperation between existing prosthetics centers throughout the world. It is hoped uing basis, an int t will make availa n achieved in this that means will be found to support, on a con- rnational prosthetics rehabilitation program le throughout the world the results that have nation in the care and management of amputees. Sincerely yours, /s/ Harold W. Glattly, M It/ Harold W. Glattly, M.D. Executive Director Dr. Howard A. Ruk Inst. of Pb. Med. & Re ab. NYM-Bellevue Medical Center 400 East 34th Street New York 16 New York Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 INTERtATIONAL PROSTHETICS RROJECT The International Prosthetics Project presents a pro- posed plan covering a period of four years for the purpose of making available to the amputees of other nations the results of research, development, and application that have been achieved in the field of prosthetics in the United States. It is proposed that this project be administered by the Prosthetics Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences--Natioaal Research Council. Although the pro- ject is designed primarily to introduce appropriate devices and techniques for amputee care and maaaaement into coun- tries where prosthetics services are today relatively non- existent, provision has been made for better liaison and cooperation between existing prosthetics centers through- out the world. In implementing this program, full advantage will be taken of all possible assistance available from xisting Government and voluntary organisations that have an interest in the field of rehabilitation and that are operating in overseas countries, especially the Interna- tional Cooperation Administration and the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples and its national affi- liates. It is assumed that varying levels of support to this project will be locally available in the several countries in which prosthetics services are established. In those instances where there is substantial financial assistance, the following estimated costs could either be reduced or the program could be correspondingly expanded. First Year Meetin of the ISWC Comm ttee on Proethesest graces aid TS Weal Aids It is proposed that the first stip in the implements- n of this overseas prosthetics project be a request to C to hold a three- or four-day meeting of this Committee, nted by certain other individuals. The entire four- plan would be presented to this group for their com- a and recommendations. Estimated Cost $ 20,000 Selection of "Pilot" Country A survey of certain underdeveloped countries would be made by a team consisting of a physician, a prosthetist and an engineer for the purpose of selecting a country for the initial test of this program. many criteria must be considered in making this choice. This will constitute a very important decision since the enperience gained in introducing a prosthetics service into this country will be the basis for planning the future expansion of the program. Estimated Cost - $ l0,000 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Interuatona1 Prosthetics Project .2 Training I genous Personnel It is proposed that two physicians, two therapists, and two prosthetists from the selected country be sent to the United States for training for periods of two months four months, and six months, respectively. Estimated Cost - 14,000 Establishment of a Pr sthet cs Service It is proposed that after the group listed above have completed their training, a United States Clinic team including an engineer visit the country to assist in establishing a prosthetics service. Thia will include setting up a limbshop and au amputee training facility. These should be established in or near an existing hospital in order that the necessary clinical support would be available. Estimated coot - U.S. Clinic Team 20,000 Limbshop Equipment and supplies 20,000 Mobile Pro ice Shop It is proposed that a large van be equipped as a prosthetics shop and that a team consisting of a physician and two prosthetists establish prosthetics services in other cities of the country through this means. EstLmated cost of mobile unit, to include equipment $ 25,000 Indirect Ste 16,000 TOTAL ESTIMATIDCOST, FIRST TEAR $ 125,000 Second Tear Annual Support?One Country For planning purposes, it is assumed that the prosthetics services after establishment will require some financial setae-ranee for some years to COMA. This is estimated at $504000 for the base operation and $25,000 for the mobile unit. Establishment of Prosthetics Services--Three Additional Countries The cost of surveying a country, of training a small cadre o/ indigenous personnel, and of setting up a prosthetics service with the aid of a United States Clinic team and a Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Aws EAralielmesiqpitOpal toWilap80B01676R004100210007-9 mobile prosthetics unit is estimated at $85,000. Estimated coat - three additional countries $255.000 interna al Prosthetics Program the war pos 1. Traineeships - The most serious limiting factor in introduction of good prosthetics services throughout the d is the lack of trained personnel. It is therefore pro- d that an annual sum of $100,000 be devoted to this punpose. 2. Short-term Prosthetics Courses - As a result of the First International Prosthetics Course at Copehhagen last summer,there is an expressed desire that these courses be continv d. It is proposed that an annual sum of $50,000 be allocated for this purpose. 3. It is proposed that a sum of $25,000 annually be made available for an "exchanee" program of key personnel between major prosthetics centers in the United States and overseas. Indirect Costs TOTAL ESTIMATED COST, SECOND YEAR Third Year Annual Support, Four Countries - at 75,000 each ntroduction of Prosthetic Services into three additional countries at $85,000 per country International Prosthetics Program (see details under Second Year) - Indirect Costs TOTAL ESTIMATED COST, THIRD YEAR Annual Support at $75,000 ea Fourth ear even Countries - troduction of Prosthetic Services into three additional countries at $85,000 per country - International Prosthetics Program INdirect Cones $ 48,000 $300,000 225,000 175,000 70,000 $525,000 255,000 175,000 85,000 $ 553,000 800,000 TOTAL ESTIMATED COST, FOURTH YEAR $1,040,000 I 0 4kniipmed For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 ? 7 ? Reprinted from the REHABILITATION BULLETIN (No. 12) July, 1957, published by the World Veterans Federation THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND REHABILITATION STATEMENT Delivered by his Excellency DI P. J. GARCIA Secretary of Health, Republic of the Philippines -to the Tenth World Health Assembly Geneva, May 20, 1957 MR. CHAIRMAN, I would like to entertain our Committee of a problem which is acquiring greater and greater importance in my country, and I know, also in a number of other countries. My country is veering towards industrialization, which brings about large movements of population from rural areas to industrial centers ; this also causes an increase in the number of industrial accidents, and an impressive rise in the number of traffic accidents. I am afraid I have no statistics on hand pertaining to their development in my coun- try. The way to industrialization and also the way to gathering statistical data, is, however, well paved by the United States of America. I would like to recall here the findings of the Baruch Committee for Physical Medicine in 1946: During World War II military operations resulted in some 16,000 amputa- tions in the America forces: during the same period, the hazards of daily life in the United States resulted in over 120,000 amputations?the number one cause of these being traffic accidents. My country, I must say, has not reached the level of mechanical effi- ciency illustrated by these figures: we are, however, progressing ineluctably in that direction. What can we do for this increasing number of disabled in our population? What I have to say also ap,plies to other disability groups, as will be evidenced later. Time and again in the course of the discussions that have taken place in our Committee, we have heard of "integration of public health services" and of the interrelationship that exists between these services on the one hand, and social and economic im- peratives on the other. I think that in no field is this integration and interrelationship better illustrated than in rehabilitation. It is indeed the development of rehabilitation services which I would like to stress; and how this development affects the work of the World Health Organization. When a patient is discharged from hospital after a successful treatment, he can be said to have recovered the highest possible degree of physical efficiency: this is all too often defined as a state of health. I shall not insist on this point. If the care of this patient stops right there and then, he is faced with the economic necessities of life, while perhaps unable to resume his former occupation. He then is condemned to live in a state of humiliating dependence. How many TB patients have we seen leave hospital after a success- ful cure to go back to their family or to their community where they lead an idle life and become an economic burden, while their mental health progressively deteriorates to the point of turning them into social tyrants to their immediate environ- ment (what the French call "sinistrose revendica- tive"). My first question is: do we have a right to leave these people in a state of despondence, when we know that more, much more in fact, can be done for Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 -- 8 ? them? The answer to this question is given without the shade of a doubt in the first paragraphs of the Constitution of the WHO. It is NO, emphatically NO. This is the point of view of the individual. There are other ways of looking at this question. Before becoming sick or injured, the patient used to earn his and his family's living. He may not be able to take up this activity, and we know that he has to be prepared psychologically and also vocationally, to resume a remunerative activity. Here, the medical officer and his staff have the responsability of his orientation. When this is not done, the "cured patient", admitedly disabled, all too often sinks into the state of despondence already mentioned. His community is deprived of his strength, and is bur- dened by one more passive member on its payroll, as it were. I have envisaged so far, only the most optimistic outcome of rehabilitation, which makes the patient a productive member of his community. This is not always the case. The best rehabilitation techniques will often have a more restricted result, leaving the disabled economically dependent on others, but ma- king him independent in the requirements of his indi- vidual daily life. We cannot overemphasize the significance of this result, for the individual and for the community as well. In the absence of rehabili- tation services, many disabled?be they the victims of TB, polio, spinal injuries, degenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis, etc. not only are dependent upon their family or their immediate social environ- ment, but they require as many as three persons for their own personal daily needs. Adequate rehabili- tation results in giving these patients a new outlook on life, which is already sufficient "raison d'?e" for rehabilitation. Moreover, these attendants who would be occupied, are free to practice some wage earning activity which will, on one hand provide for a better standard of living for their disabled asso- ciate and for themselves, and on the other, bring them to participate in constructive activities, thereby contributing to improve the standards of living of all the other members of their community. I would say that the lack of proper rehabilitation facilities results in paralizing a number of non disabled people, thereby depleting the available manpower and keeping down the standards of living in the com- munity. We have in my country, given very serious thought to these considerations and are making great efforts to establish proper rehabilitation services; we have found that these services must be supervised and coordinated by our medical officers and that they must come under the jurisdiction and administration of the Ministry of Health. The standard of the medical care granted to the disabled conditions all the consecutive steps of the rehabilitation process; furthermore, the medical officer has to be constantly consulted by the other members of the rehabilitation team. When we started to establish rehabilitation ser- vices, we were faced with the problem of devising a general project and of training personnel. In this field as in others, we needed the advice and technical assistance of other countries and of international organizations. I am pleased to state that the Medical officer appointed by the United Nations was the most competent man one could wish to have advise a country on rehabilitation matters. He was Dr. Hen- ry H. Kessler of the United States. We were also priviledged in having the visit of Dr. Howard A.Rusk, also of the United States, who came as an observer, sponsored jointly by the United Nations and a non? governmental organization. I would in fact like to pay tribute to the genuine and inspiring devo- tion these two men showed during their visit to my country. The recommandations which they pre- sented as a conclusion of their study will no doubt provide for a fundamental change in the life of many disabled. I can understand why the WHO has not so far, taken a more active interest in the field of rehabili- tation. When it was first created ten years ago, our Organization was faced with public health problems involving large numbers of persons; such as the contagious diseases to which the WHO has devoted, with great success I am pleased to say, its most constant efforts. There is still a long way to go in this direction, and we have discussed here projects involving several regions in the fight against tuber- culosis, malaria, yaws, etc. The study of malnutri- tion conditions was then added to that of contagious diseases, and they are now the subject of intensive campaigns under the leadership of the WHO. In a broad sense, the rehabilitation of those medi- cally cured, is, as I have tried to show, a challenge which falls within the field of competence of the WHO. It is a fact that the rehabilitation of our tens of thousands disabled, is an imperious need. It is a fact that my country, and many others want to establish rehabilitation services. It is a fact that the leadership in the development of rehabilitation services must be assumed by the WHO. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 International Society for the Well are of Cripples COPY BC: Dr, Col. NJAIIMM !WM IL-11 1=1.7110.1171?7 M.:Al II :4 :111 :al 'MIMI :NI, ,111114/1 ? R :4 :141^441-MMILIIIII AN= 111111.71/4. -kelephone?--V-Ibass-ci-to6-7-1- 701 FIRST AVENUE (at 40th Street) ? NEW YORK 17, N. Y., U.S.A. Telephone: MUrray Hill 4-1069 Howard A. Rusk Howard W. Glattly October 11, 1957 ?General F. S. Strong, Jr. Chairman, Prosthetics Research Board National Research Council 2101 Constitution Avenue, N,W, Washington, D. C. Dear General Strong: On behalf of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples I wish to thank you most sincerely, for the support given by the National Prosthetics Research Board to the World Congress on Rehabilitation held by this Society last July. The Exhibition provided by the Board for the Congress was very well received and proved to be very interesting and helpful to many of the thousands who visited this Exhibition. I am certain that by this time you have received many reports concerning our International Prosthetics Course which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark from August 1st to 10th. The instructors provided for this course and the other help from the Prosthetics Research Board was the primary factor in making it an outstanding success. Ding the months of August and September, it was possible for me to visit a number of our affiliated organizations in such countries as: Greece, Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. In all of these places I found that some progress had been made in starting ? services for the physically handicapped, but the development of prosthetics services was one of the most difficult problems being encountered. In all of these countries individuals responsible for prosthetics services are eager to secure additional information concerning similar programs in the United States and I am more convinced than ever, that the United States has a real opportunity, as well as a responsibility to be of help in this area. I trust that through the exchange of literature, translations and films, further prosthetics courses and other world meetings, we will be able to find ways to help these people develop their programs. I look forward to the oppor- tunity of working with you and your colleagues in the future. Sincerely yours, Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80190116916M04V002112007-9 DVW/ed Secretary General Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 MEDEC-APRL 4 September 1957 SUBJECT: TDY London, England International Congress for the Welfare of Cripples TO: Copethagen, Denmark First International Course in Prosthetics Heidelberg, Germany Exchange of information with University of Heidelberg General F. S. Strong, Jr. Chairman, Prosthetics Research Board National Research Council 2101 Constitution Avenue, N. W. Washington, D.C. 1, Objectives a, To conduct a survey to ascertain whether or not there was sufficient interest in prosthetics among the professional people and high- level political leaders to warrant an "all out" follow-up with future inter- national prosthetics teachings. b. To instruct and disseminate information at the Prosthetics School in Copenhagen, C. To enlist engineering aid an cooperation from the University of Heidelberg, particularly in exploring the possibilities of the practical application of pneumatic prostheses. 2. Findings a. That there is a general feeling of intense interest among high political leaders and professional people in all countries, as evidenced by visits from Prince Philip and other leaders in England, the political leaders in Denmark and Germany, the gratifying response to our prosthetics school, and the many sincere compliments on the progress in the United States in the field of prosthetics research. Practically every country in the world was represented at the International Congress in London, on a voluntary basis, including Russia, and certainly much progress was made at the Congress in dispelling suspicions and fostering a spirit of international cooperation. b. In regard to the First International Prosthetics Course held in Copenhagen, 23 countries besides the United States of America responded by sending students. Six of the 10 instructors for the course were Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 MEDEC-APRL SUBJECT: TDY 4 September 1957 provided by the United States. The students, over 70 in number, were about evenly divided between surgeons, therapists, and limb fitters, and the course was a very concentrated one. The response of the students was enthusiastic and all expressed the opinion thal, it was the best course ever offered them, and that they desired a post-graduate course of longer duration in the very near future. The students were unanimous in the opinion that such schools are an immediate necesLity for every country. (A list of countries sending students is attached). C. At Heidelberg, Germany a conference was held at the University at which it was agreed that Doctor Marquardt (Orthopedic Surgeon) and Mr. 0. Haefner (Engineer) would come to the United States under sponsorship of the National Research Council, Prosthetics Research Board, for six months, starting in Ianuary 1958, to continue development of the pneumatic arm in cooperation with our national program. Remarks The United States of America definitely leads the world in prosthetics research and all countries are looking toward us for information and guidance. Our national program was publicly thanked for its contribution upon which a complete revision of policy and technique was instigated in Germany and Denmark. These two countries have followed our techniques in surgery, prosthetics, and training, and are obviously grateful for the help they have received from the U.S.A. It is sincerely believed by the writer that great strides in international cooperation and good-will can be achieved in this field with a very small outlay of money, and that this type of program could lead to a deep penetration of the "Iron Curtain". This opinion is concurred in by not only the staff of instructors but also by the students attending the course, in- cluding those from Poland and Yugoslavia. We know that we have, through the Congress and the school, made definite progress in the countries listed, and perhaps in others. The decision sparked by Prince Philip's visit, to send students to the school has, at long last, pierced the barrier existing in England because of the socialized and limited limb-fitting facilities with their resultant inferior prostheses. It is the writer's opinion that the so-called "Iron Curtain' will have to be penetrated on a professional level rather than on a political level. In this respect there doesn't seem to be any surer way of making this pene- tration than that which is available to us in the prosthetics field. Approved For Release 2002/Mg21, : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 MEDEC-APRL SUBIECT: TIDY 4 September 1957 Remarks, Cont. It is believed that the contacts made on this trip and the general dis- persion of infornia tion through this trip should be vigorously followed up with possibly a post-graduate school or seminar in 1958 and 1959, leading toward ari "all. out" attack on the problem at the next International Congress to be held in New York in 1960. A survey team composed of not less than to, preferably three, and in no case greater than four men, should be sent at the request of the approrpiate government into climates with specific problems to determine the amount and type of development needed in sPecific areas. Specifically, this team should be sent to either India, Japan, or the Philippines. This team should include a doctor and an engineer who can analyze local material possibilities for limb fabrication, to be followed in a year or two by a limb- fitting- and prescription team. It is strongly recommended that further programs of teaching, such as the Copenhagen School, IN considered and set up at once as one of the better ways of sponsoring international good-will and friendliness. The writer will be available to fill in any further details desired. 1 Encl. a/s MAURICE J. FLETCHER colonel, MSC Director 3 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Attnt to MEDEC-APRL SUBJECT: TDY 4 September 1957 COUNTRIES WHICH SENT INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS To THE INTERNATIONAL PROSTHETICS COURSE IN COPENHAGEN, August 1-10, 1957 Argentina Great Britian Norway Australia Holland Philippines Belgium India Poland Denmark Iraq Sweden Finland Iran Switzerland France Israel South Africa Germany Japan U. S. A, China Korea Yugoslavia Nigeria Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 _rag ift!..11 z4d, j1.1 0.14. - 41.11 oJtS:-ll CHURCH WORLD SERVICE - Egypt Inter-Mission Council Committee for Refugee Problems 13, Sh. Seif El Dine El Mahrani Flat 2, Faggala - Cairo Tel. 59973 jIm.11 t)lt. r ;^4111. (.;.) a r The following are abstracts from a letter received by Howard A. Rusk, M.D. , from a friend of his sons who is now on the staff of the Church World Service Egypt Inter-Mission Council Committee for Refugee Problems. the area that is really in a bad way is the Gaza strip .... the people who have been there were appalled at the conditions and the one thing that struck all of them is the abundance of people there with limbs missing. UNRWA has a program of medical aid for the Palestinian refugees in Gaza (about 200,000 out of the total popu- lation of 250, 000) but with their limited resources they can't do much in the way of providing artificial limbs. They have approached the National Catholic Welfare Conference about providing the artificial limbs and NCWC seems interested. What concerns me is that the negotiations are going interminably slowly and both are feeling their way, largely because neither side knows much about the medical aspects of the problem; besides this, they seem to show no appreciation for what I think is the case, namely, that giving a person an arm, if you fit it, for me is only the first step in rehabilitating him for normal life; you have to teach him to use it. I don't think there's anyone trained to do this around here, much less an appreciation of the need for it .... " It's an exciting place to work, so much at the center of world affairs, and so controversial. Although I read volumes of anti- American propoganda, it seems that it doesn't sink in too much, since the people are friendly, even when they know I'm an American Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 FORMAL STATEMENT OF DR. HOWARD A RUSK BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE MAY 18, 1956 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 My name is Howard A. Rusk, I am a physician and Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center; Director, Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center; Associate Editor, THE NEW YORK TIMES: Consultant in Rehabilitation to the United Nations, and President of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples. I am appearing before you today as a private citizen whose primary interest is the rehabilitation of the disabled. It is my belief that rehabilitation of disabled children and adults is one of the sharpest tools and most effective instruments which we in the United States have for making friends -- a tool which can penetrate any iron or bamboo curtain to reach the minds and the hearts of men. It is natural for all of us to take improved agriculture, industry and utilities for granted but men often regard these develop- ments as somewhat remote from their immediate problems. Reha- bilitation, however, makes a personal and significant impact not only upon the disabled person himself and his family but on those with whom he comes in contact. This as well as all international activities in the field of health are one aspect of our foreign assistance program which meets all yardsticks of economic soundness, simple humanitarianism and political expediency. In his report to the Congress on our mutual security program covering July-December, 1955, John Hollister, Director of the International Cooperation Administration, wrote: The people of the United States recognize the value -- economic, social and moral -- of health and, the fact that health is a common need. We are also coming to recognize the vital relationship of health programs to any hopes we may have of helping to create conditions of economic progress, political stability and democratic social development in the many areas of the world outside the United States, where our future national security is deeply involved". Mr. Hollister then cited estimates from competent authorities that until recently the economic loss from malaria alone in India was 8224, 000, 000 a year, from bilharziasis in Egypt $57, 000, 000 a year, from malaria and tuberculosis in the Philippines $660, 000, 000 a year. Also, that we in the United States pay a hidden 5 per cent additional cost for our imports from malarious countries because of Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 disease-affection production. It is, therefore, surprising that our contributions to bilateral health programs was reduced from $43, 000, 000 in the 1955 fiscal year to $33, 767, 000 in fiscal year 1956, and that of this amount less than $50,000 was spent on all types of rehabilitation services throughout the world. From the economic aspects alone, it would seem logical that our investment in international health would be increased rather than decreased. Over and beyond the economic implications, there are great social, moral and political values in our support of inter- national health activities. These values are well illustrated by international activities in the field of rehabilitation. In this country and in the other developed parts of the world we have seen a remarkable growth of interest in rehabilitation in the last decade. This interest has not been prompted by humanitarian motives alone. It has resulted from the growing incidence of physical disability resulting from prolongation of the life span, increased public assistance costs because of disability, and our need for manpower in our expanding economy. But what lies behind the interest of Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Mexico, India, Burma and Thailand in the provision of rehabilitation services for their handicapped? It isnot the need for manpower, for these nations have far more manpower than they can profitably utilize in their present stage of industrial development. It is not to reduce public assistance costs, for few of these nations have any social schemes whereby the disabled become a responsibility of the state. It is not to reduce demands for medical, hospitalization and social services, for the chronically ill and disabled in most of these nations are wards of their families rather than of the state. The real reason is that many of these nations, particularly those of the Africa-Asia area, have, after years of colonization, recently achieved the long-sought dream of political independence. Now they are desperately looking for ways of proving to the world, and more importantly to themselves, that they have the political and social maturity to justify their political independence. - 2 - Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Long before the Government became concerned with international health projects, the Rockefeller Foundation, W. B. Kellogg Foundation, China Medical Board and other private groups had years of experience in the administration of such programs. As a result, we have more know-how in the conduct of international health projects than in some other forms of technical assistance and are able to administer such projects more effectively. Health projects are welcomed by the nations in which they are undertaken, for such projects are initiated only at the request of host countries. They are cooperative projects involving both joint planning and administration. Host countries furnish a part, frequently the major part, of the funds for such projects. The $6, 000, 000 contributed in 1955 to joint health projects in Latin America by the United States was expanded by $19, 000, 000. Since our Federal technical cooperation health programs, known popularly as "Point Four" projects, began more than thirteen years ago, they have cost our citizens less than a penny a month a person. It is reported that last year Russia graduated 27, 000 physicians from their medical schools and 20, 000 the previous year. At the present time we are graduating slightly more than 7, 000 in the United States per year. It is granted that the level of education of these physicians is far below that of our physicians but even so the health services they are providing to the country are so superior to those ever before available to the people to them, it is considered a miracle. It has also been reported that at the present time there are more doctors than can be readily absoriled in the health services of Russia and the physicians are being used for the kind of job that we would ordinarily assign to nurses and technicians. If the production continues and the excess irr2r(Ttses it is rather obvious what the physicians will do. They will carry the skills they have learned along with the concepts of communism to the backward parts of the world. We must meet this challenge and we can for our physicians are better trained, By using total professional personnel, therapists, sanitary engineers, public health administrators and educators we can do a better job. But time is running out. - 3 - Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Here is one example of what could be done, The Veterans Administration has, since 1946, conducted an extensive artificial-limb research program which is carried out by non-profit contracts with universities, The Army and Navy cooperate by supporting Prosthetic Research Laboratories within their Medical Services. Work in the universities and Armed Services has been coordinated by the Prosthetics Research Board (formerly the Advisory Committee on Artificial Limbs) of the National Academy of Sciences - - National Research Council under a contract between the Veterans Administration and the Academy. The need for a research program in artificial limbs becalne apparent early in 1945 when, at the request of the Surgeon General of the Army, the National Research Council brought together a group of scientists, engineers, surgeons and prosthetists for the purpose of establishing standards for procurement of prostheses. At this meeting it was soori,learned that the development of artificial limbs had proceeded through the years without the benefit of a scientific approach, whereupon it was recommended that the Government support a research program in this field. As the result of this program our own disabled veterans have prosthetic devices far superior to those found anywhere else in the world. Just as we are interested in sharing the technical advances in nuclear energy for peaceful purposes with the rest of the world, we could make a significant contribution to the effective understanding of American ideals of democracy and the value we place on human worth and dignity, if through an appropriation of one or twotI1ion,L4.dars a year we could share our advances in artificial limos with the world. Through demonstration centers, consultations, mobile clinics and the training of foreign personnel in the United States, a magnificent program could be established. With the sum of $1, 000,000 a year for two years both the administrative and professional overhead cost of such a project could be met; highly qualified American consultants could visit all parts of the world and survey what is available and what is needed; four completely equipped mobile prosthetic shops, each staffed by a qualified American prosthetic technician and physical therapist, could be sent to Southeast Asia, the Near East, North Africa and South America to send four to eight weeks in a given community rendering direct patient services in fitting prosthetics and - 4 - Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 training wearers in their use; permanent demonstration prosthetic shops and training centers could be established in key parts of the world; and the components to provide modern artificial limbs could be made avail- able to over 40, 000 amputees; over 100 trainees could be brought to the United States for training in prosthetics; and all of the available technical literature and visual aids in prosthetics here in the United States could be translated and published in various languages for international distribution. These prosthetic trainees would then join the 400 health workers receiving advanced...training in the United States under the auspices of the International Cooperation Administration. They and hundreds of other trained under the auspices of private foundations, their own Governments and their own resources, are permanent ambassadors of our democratic ideals. Such persons make particularly effective proponents for democracy because as professional people they work intimately with their handicapped patients and have their confidence and trust. Somewhere within the spectrum ranging from direct relief to long- range economic projects, there is a need for significant, tangible short- range projects that can be seen and easily understood. The Russians produced such a project when they paved the main street of Kabul in Afghanistan. Our foreign aid projects there have been of economic Importance, but their impact on the daily lives of the people will not be felt for many years. In contrast, several times each day the residents of Kabul have reason to be grateful to Russia. This is the kind of an imaginative, constructive project which can be easily seen and understood. There are many hundreds and thousands of disabled persons throughout the world each of whom could also become a living, dynamic example of American democracy. To illustrate their potential contributions, I should like to tell you the story of a little Bolivian boy, age 10. He was born without arms and legs with four little, sensitive fingers coming out of each shoulder and two normal feet corning from the hip joint but with no bony connection. When, he was a year old, he was abondoned by his father, who then deserted the family and has not been heard of since. The boy spent the next eight years of his life in an American mission in La Paz, where he had love and kindness but could not walk. To get from one place to another, he rolled like a little ball. He was seen there by a young physician from the United States who called me and said he had met this little boy, who was exceedingly bright and who, - 5 - Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 if he had a chance, he felt, could be a great force in the world. Pictures and case reports were sent and by coincidence seen by the secretary of one of our distinguished citizens. She made possible his trip to the United States. Two weeks before he arrived, I had the Vice-President of Bolivia and the Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations for luncheon. They knew all about Juanita and were excited about his coming. In the middle of the meal, I said to them, "You know, if we bring Juan here it is going to cost you a very large fee", In consternation, they said, "How much"? I said, The fee is this. First, that when he returns, you must promise him the best education your country affords, and second, if we can demonstrate in the most severely disabled child you will ever see what can be done, you will establish a national rehabilitation program in Bolivia". Without hesitation, the Vice-President said, "You take the boy; we pay the fee". When he arrived, he spoke no English. Within a month, he had a vocabulary of more than 300 words. Special prostheses were disigned and he now is walking. He has "grown" more than twice his height. He Is doing well in school and one day soon will be ready to go back and take his place in his own country. Several months after he was in the United States, the story was published in a national magazine. A few weeks later, a letter came to the editors which read as follows: "Congratulations on a brilliant piece of reporting. Am referring to your (February 21) on Juanita Yepez, the congenital quadruple amputee from Bolivia For those of us who are in and out of Central and South America we found your article on Juanito gained us more friends (and respect) than all the millions our government is pouring into these countries. We noted no sudden pro U.S. A. feeling In Brazil as a result of the $75 million donation (given Brazil by the United States), but we were pleasantly surprised with the many compliments for what the U.S.A. is doing for juanito. I do not know what your circulation is in Latin America but can tell you the peons in the backwoods knew all about Juanita within 24 hours after the issue - 6 - Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 was on the streets S/T Adrias Tampico, Mexico EE, Butler Master What we need in the United States are friends like Juanito Yepez all over the world, with the recognition that in the United States we believe in the dignity of the individual and because of that belief want to share the things that we have learned in our country. We are not doing this to make friends - - we are doing this to give service. If the service and the spirit are there, then we can't help but have their friendship. -7 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 The Problem Rehabilitation of the physically, handicapped in the United States has proved to be both an economically and socially sound investment. Last year 56,000 disabled Americans rehabilitated into employment paid $8, 400,000 in Federal income taxes alone the first year after their rehabilitation. Their earnings contributed $102, 300, 000 to the economic wealth of the nation. Prior ? to rehabilitation the large maprity had. been recipients of public assistance. Outside the United States, the Soviet Union and Communist China have at least 65 million physically handicapped people. More than 25 million could be treated and retrained to become self-supporting contributing members of their communities. About 40 million, mostly children and old people, could become self-dependent in their daily lives. Minimum estimates of need by regions: South America, 5, 667,000 people: North America (out- side the U.&) 1, 897, 000; Europe (outside U. S. S. R,) 12, 093, 000; .Africa, 6, 250,000; Oceania, 417, 000; Asia (outside China and U. S. S. R. ) 27, 177, 900. Only advanced nations have skills and facilities to demonstrate how these people could be restored. The United States is the greatest soirce of this knowledge. We have established treatment and training centers, and have invested substantial sums to develop methods and equipment for our own needs. But we have scarcely begun to apply these resources for our country's standing in the world. scene. The $55 billions spent on foreign aid since 1945 have largely gone for military and economic assistance. While such assistance has been of great value to the governments aided,this massive aid has had little known impact upon the personal lives and thinking of the people. Through comparatively small investment, restored children and adults can be vivid proofs of the United ?States belief in the worth of the individual person. Russia has shifted emphasis in foreign affairs to teclmical assistance and international exchange of persons. She is training many foreign students, is graduating 4 times as many personnel in health fields as the United States, and is offering experts and technicians for export. Demand for rehabilitation services exists overseas. is perhaps strongest in countries where new governments hope to meet social needs far beyond resources of trained personnel, We can never undertake to meet the vast human requirements of underdeveloped nations, but can teach the teachers and leaders for relatively little money, spurred by private initiative. If Americans do not ine-et requests for help, the Soviet government will. T12,e*Qpp_92:tunity We have a head start because of rehabilitation developments during and since World IATar TA:, through modest begLinnings_takag;pdiglkARgistiljsr in the Approved For Release 2002/08121 : CIA-Kuv Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 2 - last few years, and because of contacts made by American consultants in countries seeking to establish their own programs. Disabilities now responding dramatically to specialized physical medicine include ampu- tations, spinal paralysis, arrested tuberculosis, stroke, cardiac attack, polio, cerebral palsy, neurological disease, post-surgical handicaps and inherited defects. While skills and resources for treatment are primarily concentrated in the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, these physical problems occur in most of the world's families. Effective rehablitation proceeds from diagnosis through treatment to em- ployment and adjustment to conditions at home and on the job. It demands teamwork of physicians who arrest disease and correct defects through surgery, drugs and restorative therapy; therapists who train patients to use muscles, nerves and will; technicians who make and fit limbs, braces and an array of other devices; social workers who ascertain desires, problems, aptitudes and goals; personnel workers who arrange for work training and job placement. Teams of specialists have been trained in the United States for programs now rendering services in Japan, Greece, Yugoslavia, Israel, the Philippines and Korea. New centers at various stages of development have begun work in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Egypt, Turkey, India, Indonesia and Thailand. Scattered beginnings in Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan, Chile, Ceylon and Viet Nam have asked for help. Many countries, like Burma which now has a team for training here, have not a single physician trained in rehablitation nor one trained therapist, limb fitter or bracem.aker. In advanced countries there are phases of modern treatment where resources are signally absent, offering large dividends in good will through consultation and training. III The World Rehablitation Fund Before World War II the only organized international activities in reha- bilitation were conducted by the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples. This voluntary federation of national groups held periodic congresses attended by delegates from 12 to 15 nations. Since the War, the Society launched a modest but highly successful program of information and consultant services. With the belief that restoration of disabled children and adults offers an unique tool for strengthening American aims in the world today, a number of leaders in United States public and economic life have established the World Rehablitation Fund. Honorary Chairmen are Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Bernard M. Baruch and Albert Schweitzer. Directors include Donaldson Brown, .Arde Bulova, Ralph K. Davies, William T. Donovan, LW, McAfee, Edgar M. Queeny, Howard A. Rusk, Walter Bedell Smith and Arthur K. Watson. Counsel is Donovan, Leisure Newton & Irvine. Price Waterhouse & Co. is auditor. J. P, Morgan & Co, are fiscal agents. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 3 - Although the Fund is a voluntary effort, its objectives and formation have been discussed with and approved in principle by leaders in the Federal Administration including President Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, Harold Stassen, Nelson Rockefeller and Sherman Adams. It has been conceived as wholly, opposite from a "give-away" program. The Fund provides professional and technical assistance based on enlightened American self- interest, giving priority attention to countries where public recognition of the United States desire for mutual understanding is most needed. A sound foundation toward these objectives, enabling countries to initiate national rehabilitation services on a boot-strap basis, could be achieved with average expenditure of $1, 000,000 per year for a minim, frn period of five years. This would permit allocation of $3, 374, 500 for training of physicians, therapists and other specialized personnel from other countries; $650, 000 to furnish consultation to programs at centers abroad; $217, 000 for tranSlation of texts,. films, monographs and other instructional materials; $5501000 for research support, pilot equipment, tools and initial materials, and an average annual expense of $15, 000 for administration of the program. IV Policies Grants will be made for five kinds of work: L Consultation by technical experts and task groups of specialists, to improve current programs and to develop new services; S ecizaiz (a) fellowships to candidates who give promise of becoming teachers and leaders in their homelands; (b) strengthening United States programs for training foreign students; (c) making existing fellowships more widely known where needs are greatest; (d) aid to indigenous teaching programs through exchange of personnel; Wormations jlppm._,t, through use of more films, trans- lations, teaching aids, public education measures, exchange of data on equipment, materials and methods and establishment and expansion of reference centers which will be kept up-to-date; 4, R.._..e,g12.0.,L2011ferL?nces whereby physicians, administrators, technical personnel and citizens can share experience in solving common problems, see demonstrations and attend clinics,of techniques perfected in other parts of the world; 50 Research directed toward development of new techniques and better use of current rehabilitation knowledge. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 4 - Projects will be selected and supported according to three criteria: 1. Ability to make a significant contribution to development of rehablitation for the disabled within the nation and region; 2. Interest of governmental and private parties of the area, and their willingness to assume increasing degrees of responsibility for projected services until financial and program responsibilities are entirely carried by local resources; 3, Significance of the project and its location for contributing to American foreign policy objectives. V..Qations The program of the World Rehabilitation Fund will have two aspects administratively. The fellowship activities will be administered directly by the Fund's staff. In its support of non-fellowship projects, the Fund will make grants to operating agencies with staff, experience and skills to administer such projects effectively. Projects will be selected by the Executive Committee of its Board. The Fund's staff consists of a part-time Executive Director and secre- tarial support. Overhead, including administrative and professional direction of the program is less than 515,000 per year. The Fund received its charter as a non-profit tax-exempt membership corporation from the State of New York on November 21, 1955. Actual operation of the Fund's program began around July 1, 1956. During its first full fiscal year ending June 30, 1957 the Fund had received contribitions of approxi- mately $150, 000. Nominations for fellowships for advanced study in the United States will be primarily made by universities, medical faculties and/or by national voluntary organizations concerned with rehablitation of the handicapped in the applicants' home countries. Evaluation of qualifications and promise of future contribution after training will be made by the nominating groups, United States missions, foundations and voluntary agencies conducting related programs. Final selections will be made by a committee of the Fund, in consultation with appropriate agencies and the training institution where the individual fellow will be assigned for the major share of advanced instruction. Fellowships awarded by the Fund will include a stipend to the training Institution to meet costs,. Where a substantial number of trainees are assigned to particular centers, administrative grants will be considered for extension and support, purposes. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 5 - Present anticipations are to make Fund allocations for fellowships, consul- tation, information support, regional exchange, research and other goals with an approximate ratio of geographic emphasis as follows: South and Central America, $1, 500, 000; South and South East Asia, $2, 100, 000, Europe, $325,000; Middle East Puri Africa, $1, 0751000. VI Re_m_est It is the intention of the World Rehablitation Fund to seek financial contri- butions from American corporations particularly those which have oper- ations outside of the United States. The Fund's directors and staff will work closely with contributing corporations in development of projects in regions and countries where such corporations' operations, markets and raw materials are located, Recognition of their support for these projects will be given in the countries concerned in accord with policies and plans agreed-upon by the Fund and representatives of contributing corporations. VII I)._es..2.,e_c_tive It is believed that the effect of this grant will be to make self-assistance possible for an increasing number of disabled individuals In the countries concerned. The immediate result will be specific and visible in human terms, with a longer-range benefit to the restored persons' families and communities? Further less tangible benefits can be expected. Irrespective of national barriers, racial differences, language, beliefs and culture, physical disabilities unite all mankind. As a privately supported program which supplements governmental economic assistance, the Fund's work stresses the great value placed by Americans on the value of the individual, Aside from advan,cing independent self-assistance in less developed regions, this work can make America's technical contributions to the welfare of all peoples better understood, Through its project, the Fund will contribute to-ward reducing international tensions. Its work expresses America's confident belief that man's mission on earth is to heal and not to hurt, to build and not to destroy. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 EXHIBITS Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 MEDICAL Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 The following is an excerpt from the 1956-1957 Annual Report of the Depart- ment of Physical Medicine and Rehablitation, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, describing graduate training programs for physicians and other rehablitation workers of the type in which foreign personnel given fellowships by the World RehabIllation Fund would participate at New York University and other rehablitation training centers in the United States. INIg_A_TIgRN. NAL PROGRAM A significant increase in the scope of the International Training Program was noted during 1956-57. As in previous years the program was a broad one, involving both medical and co-professional personnel and encompassing both professiona.1 training and f-raillarizing with the customs of Anerican democracy. Personal counseling and services were included in the program this year. Physicians Thirty-three foreign physicians participated in the long-terra training program described under Graduate Training Activities. Their national distribution is listed in the following table: Distributsicians in 1956-1957 Graduate Training Pro ram "1)ynt n Argentina 2 Australia Bolivia 1 Burma 1 Chile 1 Colombia 3 Egypt 1 Finland 1 Germany 1 Greece 1 Guatemala 2 Haiti India 1 Iraq 1 Ireland 2 Japan 1 Korea 3 Philippines 3 Portugal 1 Spain Thailand 1 Turkey 2 33 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 2 - By and large foreign students were supported by grants, fellowships and training stipends, awarded by the Department of Physical Medicine and. Rehablitation and such agencies as the United Nations, the Inter- national Cooperation Administration of the United States Department of State, the World Health Organization, and private foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation?, American Korean Founds.tion, etc. Close cooperation in the broad aspects and implications of the Inter- nation.al Training Program was maintained with the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples, the American Korean Foundation and the United Nations, and was begun with the newly organized World Rehablitation Fund. A system of regional representatives associated with the Department has been initiated and is proving to be of great value in screening applicants for foreign traineeships in their country of- origin. Further development of this system is most desirable. Medical Observers Twenty foreign physicians visited the Department for periods of observation of several days to one or two months, As a rule such observers were specialists, or physicians in public service and teaching positions who wished to observe n d study areas of special interest to them. The following table lists IMP dical observers according to country of origin: Distribution of Medical Observers 1956-1957 by Country, of Orin Argentina 1 Belgium 1 Brazil 2 Danmark 1 Guatemala 1 Korea Mexico 10 New Zealand 1 Pakistan Puerto Rico 20 Co-Professional Personnel Twenty-two foreign co-professional workers served traineeships of from one to twelve months in the various departments (see co-profes,- sVtlovVtiNMelease 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 3 - Distribution of Forel_ Co-Professional Trainees Physical Therapists 9 Occupational Therapists 3 Nurses 4 Social Workers 2 Pros the fists 3 Physical Educator 1 22 Distribution of Forel. Co-Professional Trainees of Orig142 Australia 1 Bolivia 1 Burma 4 Colombia 3 Finland Germnny 1 Guatemala 1 Haiti 1 Holland 1 Hungary 3 Israel 3 Jamaica 1 Korea 2 Sweden 1 22 In addition to, the trainees noted above eight foreign students took the course in "Physical Rehablitation Methods for Physical Therapists" they represented the British West Indies, Australia, Canada, Prigland and Israel. National Teams The great advantage of team training may be the rapid establishment of a teaching center to train personnel in the country of origin of the team, making for continued expansion of services. Two Rehablitation Teams were in training in 1956-57. A complete group of rehablitation personnel from Colombia, South America, consisting of physicians, an occupational therapist, a physical therapist and a psycho- social specialist is about to complete a training program and return as a coordinated unit. Personnel other than the physicians were sponsored by the International Cooperation Administration; the physicians are in the Colombian Military Service. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 4 - A team of five rehabilitation trainees from Burma, representing all disciplines, began training in September 1.956 under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation, Together with the Thailand Team, three complete units will have been trained and return to their countries of origin ready to function in the area of patient service and teaching. The training of coordinated rehabilitation teams as units warrants further exploration and seems to be a most feasible and economic method of establishing a rehablitation program in countries presently without any significant rehabilitation services. Non-Professional Activities During 1956-57 an administrator for non-professional activities was added to the staff of the International Training Program, An expert In international education, the administrator has acted as a personal counselor to the foreign students and has made arrangements for their attendance at many cultural and educational events. A series of seminars in Cross-Cultural Problems was conducted by the adminis- trator in the Spring of 19570 An active program of social and cultural affairs was carried out during the year. Trainees attended the Berkshire Music Festival, visited Washington, D. C. and Boston and participated in the Forum on "Dynamics of Democracy" in Atlantic City, New jersey,. Visits were made by individuals or small groups to typical American homes in Baldwin, New York, and Boonton, New je rsey. Several parties were held which gave foreign and American personnel the opportunity to get to know and understand each other better. Students from Latin America and from the Far East acted as hosts for two of these, arranging for the menu and the entertainment. The purpose of the non-professional program is to stimulate greater understanding of American customs and traditions by the foreign students and to encourage a continuing sympathetic relationship after the termination of the training program. A system of English language evaluation and teaching has been worked out with the Foreign Student Center of New York University and has been extremely valuable in increasing English language competency when necessary. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 FISCAL Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year 5th Year 000 000 Totals 000 Fellowships Latin America. $100, 000 South East Asia 150, 000 Europe 25,000 Middle East (S6 Africa 10,0, 000 $150, 000 200, 000 40,000 149, 500 $ 200, 000 300,000 50,000 1502 000 $ 250,000 320,000 60,000 150 000 $ 300, 350, 60,000 170,000 Si, 000, 1, 320,000 235,000 71950O 3751 000 539, 500 700 000 780,000 880, 000 .3, 274, 500 Consultation Abroad 75, 000 125, 000 150, 000 150, 000 150, 000 650, 000 Translation texts, films, morio- graphs 30, 000 37, 500 42, 500 47, 500 60, 000 217, 000 Research support, pilot equipment, tools, materials 50, 000 75, 000 125,000 150,000 1 50, 000 550, 000 Administration 60,040 64,030 65, 940 67, 665 67, 465 325, 140 $590, 040 $841, 030 $ 1,083,.41_0 1, 195, 165 $1, 307, 465 $5, 017, 140 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 POLITICAL Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 AREA ESTIMATES OF _CRIPPLED AND DISABLED Region Persons of employable age Children and old p_s2V..t. Africa 2, 496, 000 3, 744, 000 South America 1,417, 200 4, 249, 800 Asia (except and China) 10, 874, 800 16, 303, 100 Europe (except U. S. R. ) 4, 837, 200 7, 255, 800 Oceania 166, 800 250, 200 North America (except USA) 758,800 1, 138, 200 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 NA TISIVregriMMIgalsiglgoP12/0423R c,-f314114MPS:fineLRSQ41tocriltqPqMERNATIONA L SOCIETY FOR THE WELFARE OF CRIPPT Stockh.olm The Have London 1949 1953 1957 Argentina.01101.' filPfa 0/1" ANEW ------------------seflos am men. -x Australia4.IX......1101, Mafa, faaf afaf f.X. fa, Pf flPf, -x Austria ;mt.. rotes, _x Belgium. _40 alitx.momor ommar Mims' stemeMS-44 ...X.. 4.0014C NM* 4Of -x Brazil -----x---- ----x Burma_ fir*, =rani yammer If f ..fr pmppalP Pompom Memo AIM Mk ma owe ????=,..? fa am fos do Inca. -x Canada --x Ceylon. Mr fa fp. 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Iwo. ogo. goothk . *0 -x Trinidad . ?dn. -x Turkey --x----- IL S., --x-- -x Venet a ved For-IR-de-ale-2002/08/21 7ti*A-1615folEro1PgiltM4Icrtr217)007:r--*--x Yugos --- a- ---- ---x Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Physicians Composition of Soviet Specialized Personnel 1926 1935 1938 1952 70,000 132, 000 155,000 300,000 Intermediate 130, 000 382, 000 607, 000 900, 000 medical personnel Semi- professional Soviet Health Graduates (1946-1950) Planned Actual Annual Average 270,000 261,000 52,201 Professional Level (6 years after secondary school) 100, 000 108, 300 21, 700 Total Health Labor Forces 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 Semi. professional 672, 600 711, 400 749, 100 Professional (6 years after secondary school) 249, 100 264, 150 290, 800 305, 900 323, 700 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Soviet Medical Education - Quantity In the National Academy of Science-National Research Council 1955 study, SOVIET PROFESSIONAL ,MANPOWER - its Educationm and Svply, Dr, Nicholas De Witt of the Russian Research Center at Harva.rd University gives the following data for the period from 1940 through 1954. We also submit comparative data for the United States compiled from reports of the Health Resources Advisory Committee, Year Estimate Soviet Physicians Trained U.S. Physicians Trained 1940 14,790 5,097 1941 15,045 5,275 1942 18,020 5,168 1943 7,905 5,223 1944 6, 630 10, 303 1945 5,780 5,136 1946 12, 580 5, 826 1947 15, 300 6, 389 1948 22, 100 5, 543 1949 19, 890 5, 094 1950 5, 553 1951 17,000 6,135 1952 27,200 * 6,080 1953 6,668 1954 20, 400 6, 861 1955 27, 000 6, 800 * estimate Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Relevance So far as has been determined, physical medicine and rehablitation have not yet received emphR.sis as a separate discipline in Soviet schools of medicine. When Rahjkamari Amrit Kaur, Indian Minister of Health, was recently in New York, she was asked during a radio interview: "Have you had any offers of financial or technical aid from the Soviet Union in connection with your particular department?" She answered: "Yes. When the Minister of Health of the Soviet Union visited India and was with us three weeks, after her return she wrote and asked me in what spheres of health programs Russia could help us, After my visit in 1953, I was very struck with what they had done in regard to pediatrics and in regard to scientific physical medicine. "At the moment they are helping me in a small hospital for children in Delhi and I hope they will be able to help me with scientific physical medicine, too. " When a U,S. publisher visited the Soviet Union last year, he asked Vyacheslav Yelutin, the Minister of Higher Education, about Russian policy on international exchange. Yelutin's answer: "We are willingly going in the direction of taking more foreign students. When other governments ask us, we respond positively. " Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 SIGNIFICANCE Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 DIRECTORS: WORLD REHABILITATION FUND John S. Allard Elmer H. Bobst Donaldson Brown Arde Bulova Ralph K. Davies William J. Donovan Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel David M. Heyman Paul G. Hoffman Henry H. Kessler, M. D, George L. Killion Mrs. Albert Lasker Russell V. Lee, M.D. Charles W. Mayo, M. D. Leonard W. Mayo James Wesley McAfee Norman Vincent Peale Edgar M. Queeny Mrs. Anna Rosenberg Beardsley Ruml Howard A. Rusk, M. D, David Sarnoff Walter Bedell Smith Eugene J. Taylor Arthur K. Watson COUNSEL: Donovan, Leisure Newton & Irvine FISCAL AGENTS: J. P. Morgan & CO. AUDITORS: Price Waterhouse & Co. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 BERNARD M.BARUCH 597 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK 22,N.Y. November 22, 1955. My dear Dr. Rusk: Answering your suggestion regardin& an international organization to help the disabled of the world, anything that will spread rehabilitation or even alleviation of the disabled has had my most earnest consideration over the years. Anything that can be worked out on an international scale should receive not alone the good wishes but the active support not only to help these people but to show the world that what we are doing or asking for ourselves, we wish to have achieved for everyone, everywhere. Restoring disabled people - taking them from a life of idleness and despair to one of hope and usefulness - is a challenge none of us can refuse. Sincerely youns, Dr. Howard A. Rusk, President, World Rehabilitation Fund, 701 First Avenue, New York 17, New York. flie"-Gt-44 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP801301676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 THE WHITE HOUSE WAS H IN GTO N Dear Dr. Rusk: November 17, 1956 I was very glad to learn of the purpose that you and your as- sociates have set for yourselves in establishing a program for World Rehabilitation. You are performing a most humane service in providing technical assistance to other nations in their efforts to establish rehabilitation programs for their handicapped citizens. There is a supplementary value in this work. When young physicians from overseas receive specialized training in the United States, it gives them an opportunity to become familiar with our history, government, and cultural activities. When these physicians return home, they will be trained in the latest techniques of rehabilitation and also serve as interpreters of our American way of life. Rehabilitation of the physically handicapped is of importance to all nations. By helping other peoples to help themselves, Americans express their concern for all mankind and their belief in the worth of each individual. In view of the responsibilities of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, I am sending a copy of this letter to Secretary Folsom. You will undoubtedly want to coordinate your efforts also with those of various health agencies of the government and those of other organizations engaged in re- lated activities. I trust that your program will be eminently successful. With warm regard, Sincerely, g Le--2)24.4.? 44A-"si Dr. Howard A. Rusk Pre sident World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc. 400 East 34th Street New York 16,N. Y. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 HERBERT HOOVER The Waldorf-Astoria Towers New York 22, New York September 7, 1955 Howard A. Rusk, M. D. World Rehabilitation Fund 701 First Avenue New York 17, New York My dear Dr. Rusk: There are many reasons for my deep interest in the plans we discussed recently for furthering rehabilita- tion services for the physically handicapped in many parts of the world through the World Rehabilitation Fund. I have had occasions to see how individuals who have, overcome disabilities have later made important contributions to mankind, possibly because they appreciated how transmittal of benefits to others is a kind of continuing trust. During my work in Europe in time of war, one of the men who gave most of himself to save people suffering famine and devastation was a talented diplomat who had been born without legs or arms. With the right kind of help he had learned to use artificial limbs, acquired a fine education, and had risen to a post of high distinction serv- ing his country. Perhaps the foremost necessity for the World Rehabilitation Fund can be pronounced in a single word: Peace. Any peace which is not based on a solid foundation of understanding between peoples must be recognized as a temporary, unstable truce. The exchange of skills and techniques this Fund will foster benefits all and penalizes none. This work can do much to advance and to mature understanding between nations. The human results, in making happier and more productive lives possible, are so readily understood they speak for themselves volumes more than learned documents or solemn treaties can possibly do. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Howard A. Rusk, M.D. -2- September 7, 1955 It is surely encouraging that American industry recognizes the potential of rehabilitation for serving our country, and that amid the confused tensions of today' world its leaders have expressed interest in supporting this significant endeavor. I am pleased to serve as an Honorary Chairman of the World Rehabilitation Fund, and look forward to its growth and accomplishment. Yours faithfully, Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 HARRY- S. TRUMAN" FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BUILDING KANSAS CITY 0, MISSOURI October 24, 1955 Dear Dr. Rusk: The World Rehabilitation Fund's mission to channel private American support for rehabilitation of handi- capped people in other countries is a truly appropriate development at this time. Here in the United States it was after considerable constructive work by numerous private groups, proving the practical as well as humane values of restoring the disabled to maximum independence, that forward- looking federal legislation was passed. Further provisions have since encouraged greater partnership with the 4tates, training of personnel and building more 0?mm:trinity rehabilitation centers. We have learned that rehabilitation pays society as well as the individual who is helped to earn a new life. When Point IV was still a new concept, we enunciated not just foreign policy ,through our government but also expressed in dynamic form a long-standing aspira- tion of the American people. I believe the Congress acted rightly in this enabling legislation that "participation of private agencies and persons shall be sought to the greatest extent possible." The World Rehabilitation Fund can fill an enormous vacuum. Every individual and family ultimately benefited will have compelling reasons to understand America as a source of freedom from misery. I am proud to be one of the Honorary Chairmen. Dr. Howard A. Rusk The New York Times 229 West 43rd Street New York 36, New York Sincerely yours Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 WORLD REHABUT.A.TION FUND, INC. June 15, 1957 Prolects,Completed Provision of an American consultant in prosthetics for two months in Korea, Burma, Th.alland? India and jordan. Provision of artificial limb components to the Philippines. Provision of artificial limb components to Thailand Shipment of periodicals and books on rehablitation to Poland, India, France, Finland, Russia, the Philippines and Australia. A six months scholarship for study in the United States for a physical therapist from Haiti. A one month scholarship for study in the United States for a social worker from Greece. A one month scholarship for study in the United States for a physician from Brazil. Presentation of a rehablitation demonstration before representatives Of 21 nations attending International Labour Organization Conference in Havana. Participation in Caribbean Conference on Rehablitation in Miami Beach, Travel and expenses for senior orthopedic surgeon from Poland to ateni annual meeting of American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery and observe programs in the United States. Provision of travel from Poland and return for two Polish physicians to attend six months graduate course in rehablitation at Western Reserve University. A grant to assist the International Union for Child Welfare in a self- study of its program. A grant to aid a senior social worker from Thailand spend six months studying rehablitation services in the United States. A three months' scholarship for advanced study of rehablitation in the United States for a physician from Belgium. A grant to support the basic education services of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 2 - Pro ecIs_Beitiat_m_e_att3s1_. Provision of four scholarships for representatives from four Southeast Asian nations to attend a three week short course in job placement of the handicapped being held in Indonesia in September 1957, Provision of educational materials for a ten day international course in prosthetics to be held in Denmark. Provision of a minimum of one year's graduate training in the United States for a physician from the Philippines. Provision of a minimum of one year's graduate training in the United States for a physician from Great Britain, Assistance in holding a Caribbean Conference on Rehablitation in conjunction with a Guatemalan Congress on Rehablitation in Guatemala in November, 1957 Provision of a three months' scholarship to study cardiovascular rehablitation in the United States for a cardiologist from Chile recommended by Dr. James Watt. Provision of scholarship assistance for trainees from Europe to attend an international seminar in vocational rehablitation of the tuberculous. Assistance in making possible a ten-months comparative study by two American experts of special education of handicapped children In Europe. IDzslests_ Pending Presentation of a demonstration on rehablitation before the World Conference of the international Labour Organization in Switzerland in June, 1958. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Rele A Boy and a Miracle tasptrationat story from NEVVSWEEK February 21 1955 ad a message from: Newsweek?Ed Wereeles Reprinted from the issue of FEBRUARY 21, 1955 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Reiter Than Millions ulations on a brilliant piece of re- ig referring to your article (Feb. Newsweek?Ed Werirelee ;ood-w ill ambassador l'he Right Relationship' Words cannot begin to express my ap- iation for the article you carried [on con- al amputation] in the Feb. 21 issue of N EWSWEEK about the Bolivian boy, Juan iregoyen Yepez. Your treatment of this case %vas so humanitarian and brought before the people of our nation the unselfish work of Oheicors and hospital personnel. It did much help establish the right relationship be- ween the little people of the world ... CONRAD R. WILLARD Pastor Calvary Baptist Church Ixanisas City,. Mo. 21) on Juanito Yepez, the cougenit quad- ruple 'amputee from Bolivia. ... For those of us who are in an mit of Central and South America we fou your article on Juanito gained us more eilends ( and respect) than all the millions gov- ernment is pouring into these iiount ,es. We noted no suclilen pro U.S.A. feeling Brazil as a result of the $75 million donatio . given Brazil by the U.S.], but we were pi, ?:isaritly surprised with the many complim tis for what the U.S.A. is doing for Juani I do not know what your circulatUm is o Latin America but can tell you the peon it the backwoods knew all about juanno u t tin 24 hours after the issue was on the greets. You also mentioned the -Save t. o Chil- dren Federation- was paving his height while in the U.S. This organization ,vith a few thousand dollars, is gaining us a sands more friends than our State Departu t with their millions ... B S/T Adrias Tampico, Mexico Two of ti e many reactions from Newsweek readers who were inspired Ly Mrs. Clark's story of hope and courage. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 -071-tr nett/ 4.ark Tin-Tr quxr April 4, 195 5 To the Editors NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE 142nd Street and Broadway New York 36, New York Gentlemen: This is a letter of deep personal appreciation for the magnificent docurrentation by Mrs. Marguerite Clark of the story of Juan Yepe z. Juan is not just ore little boy born without arms and legs in a far-away country. He is symbolic of the need for understanding and the recogaition that arms and legs do not make a man -- spirit males a man. Since coming to our Institute some six weeks ago, Juan now speaks English like a veteran. In fact, only last week he acted as interpreter for a wounded Columbian soldier who had just been flown in from Bogota. Juan is now walking on his new legs with special crutches which his small baby hands can fit into. Everyone at the Institute who las worked with this amazing child has cone to love him, and he has had much love before he came to us, for in spite of his rejection and abandonment, he feels completely secure and is the one who cheers up the other children in the ward when they are overbore by homesickness. Two children in the ward were talking recently about "when we go horn next week" and said to Juan, "When do you go here?" He was sitting on the windowsill watching the cars on the East River Drive when asked the question and, looking far, far away, he replied, "I only go home when I walk home." As President of the International Society for the Welfare cir Cripples comprising 100 organizations from 30 countries all over the -world, I have seen this spirit from Korea to Poland and from Haiti to Delhi. Here in the courazeous spirit of the disabled do we have a common language. Juan Yepez is a great symbol -- a bright light in a spiritually gray world. He epitomizes spiritually even more dynamism than nuclear fission. When he "walks back" to Bolivia, le will bring with him a new concept of the dignity of the individual, for, verily, "a little child shall lead them". I am deeply grateful to you for the deep sensitivity with which you have documented the story of a great human being. Sincerely, Howard A. Rusk, M. D. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 676R004100210007-9 or Juan uan from Bolivia, rehabilitation's brightest hope Boy and a Miracle :t hot morning in 1951, a 5-year-old born without arms or legs, was fai in a trash can on a street in La Paz, The little mestizo (mixed Span- ) and Indian blood) had no stumps, yet son his shoulders grew two perfectly on ked hands and. from his hips, two ca tong feet. Taken to a home for aban- ithied children, he was "adopted" a year boor by members of the La Paz Rotary I 11.1.1) and was placed in the American Uospital there. In no time, Juan Iregoyen Yobez became the pet of the place. a handsome, alert youngster who lked up English quickly, Juanito was well developed physically, and from the amai run of scarlet fever, whooping t'oogh., and measles he emerged tough strong. He learned to get from one a.tice to another by rolling about the Itospital floor like a ball of tumbleweed. devised ways of using head, chin, mouth to suit his extraordinary With nimble fingers, he learned iced himself. But in La Paz there was .1?.) equipment with which to rehabilitate lie boy's cruel double handicap. I ,tist summer a young plastic surgeon 4, on Kansas City, on a medical mission Bolivia, encountered Juan, then 8 years old, at the American Hospital. Br L in the states, the surgeon described t? unusual case to Dr. Howard A. flu director of the famous Institute of Ply, t- eal Medicine and Rehabilitation, N ,? York University-Bellevue Medical C, ter, New York. Several children's orga r zations became interestpd in the boy. airline, Panagra, offered to fly him o New York. The Save the Children F, I - eration volunteered to act as his gua t- hin, in addition to contributing money ? his care care at the New York Univers; - Bellevue Medical Center. Last week, S third in New York, Juan was a cy-nos of American specialists' attention. Late Care: Cases of congenital ? - putation?the medical name for this aft' ? - tion?are not uncommon. Because f faulty genes, some 4.7 of 10,000 child are born without arms or legs or hi 1. (Juan's mother had two brothers b, r without arms.) Many of these chilch i3ven quadruple amputees like Juan, h ? been fitted with artificial arms and 1 CS and trained for useful lives (NEwswt ? K, Nov. 5, 1951). Usually, however, ti rehabilitation is started at a very e, y age, before the children are aware 4 their malformation. In Juan's case, ? training had been delayed for alp nine years; the boy's mode of living , been conditioned by stark necessity. In the time lag, however. American doctors recognized two possible advantages: (1) Juan's mature courage and strong, well-developed body and mind, and (2) his naturally formed, though ?mis- placed, hands and feet. Many young con- genital amputees are born without any stumps at all, and fitting them with prop- erly mectatnized prostheses is a difficult task. For luau's deformity, the experts reasoned, it might be possible to fashion special artificial arms and Legs which could be worked, by remote control, from Juan s own capable hands and feet. By last week William Tosberg, chief of the N.Y.L.-Bellevue Center's Prosthetic Technical Services. had prepared a canvas basket into which Juan's torso could be tided. Suspended from it were two stiff wooden legs. By twisting his agile trunk, the boy could teeter from side to side, in a walking-doll movement. "This will not do,- he said patiently. -I have strong feet; I must have legs that my feet will work.'" Juan was right. If by some skilled trick of prosthetic engineer- ing, this can be accomplished, the boy may have self-motivated arms and legs before his rehabilitation is completed. nig Fee: Specialists at the center marvel at the remarable adaptation made by the boy's gnively malformed body. Neurologists, amazed at his lack of dizziness after rolling about on the floor for fifteen or twenty minutes, are con- ducting studies of his nervous system. Teachers are impressed by his quick grasp of facts and his unusual learning capacity. Nurses and attendants talk of his cheery disposition. However dramati- cally this bespoke his ability to help himself, Juan also is assured of being a big help to others, Shortly before the boy arrived in New York, Dr. Rusk was visited by the Vice President of Bolivia, Dr. Hernan Siles Zuazo, and the consul general of that country, Dr. Alberto Arce Quiroga. Aftet explaining the proposed program for Juan, Dr.. Rusk added: "This will cost Bolivia a big fee ... We will rehabilitate Juan. We will help educate him, and when he is able to care for himself, we will send him back to Bolivia. There you will complete his education, and help him get a suitable job. That is not all. "In return for our care of the boy, you will establish in Bolivia a rehabilitation center where all handicapped children? those like Juan, as well as those with polio or cerebral palsy or rheumatoid arthritis?will be retrained. That you will do for Juan Iregoyen Yepez." The Bolivian dignitaries bowed. "You take the boy," Vice President Siles re- plied. "We will pay the fee.." Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 9foild M&hatteWtallon eFunid, Jne. 400 EAST 34TH STREET NEW YORK 16, N. Y. Zir New fork Zintto WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1957, ESTABLISHED 1851 REG. U. S. PAT. OFF, "All the News That's Fit to Print" ADOLPH S. Oafs, Publisher 1896-1935 Published Every Day in the Year by THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER Chairman of the Board Publisher ORVIL E. DRYFOOS President AMORY H. BRADFORD Vice President HARDING F. BANCROFT Secretary FRANCIS A. Cox Treasurer : NEW FUND AIDING WORLD DISABLED Rehabilitation Unit, Set Up in '55, Names Hoover and Truman Honorary Aides Former Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman have been named honorary chair- men of the World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc., a relatively new or- ganization. The aim of the group Is to sponsor international proj- ects and understanding for the, physically handicapped. Dr. Howard A. Rusk, president of the fund, said yesterday that the new enterprise hoped to rally American corporations, founda- tions and individuals to con- The new fund is crossing ideo- logical frontiers. Periodicals and books already have been deliv- ered to the Soviet Union and Po- land. Arrangements have been made for two Polish physicians to take a six-month course at Western Reserve University, while another has visited here. Four Soviet physicians are about to come here for study. Dr. Rusk has brought back Soviet publi- cations?"pound for pound." The fund has the endorsement of President Eisenhower. Ber- nard M. Baruch and Dr. Albert Schweitzer are the other honor- ary chairmen. The fund's headquarters is at 400 East Thirty-fourth Street. Among the financial supporters so far have been the Albert arid Mary Lasker Foundation, the Smith, Kline and French Foun- dation, the Mount Ararat Foun- dation, American President Lines, the Radio Corporation of America, the New York Times Foundation, the Monsanto Chem- tribute $1,000,000 a year fpNical Company Charitable Trust, fellowships and other programs. Dr. Rusk is also associate editor of The New York Times. Thus far, twenty have con- tributed $150,000. Out of this, about a score of projects have been completed since the fund got under way without announce- ment in December, 1955. No general public fund-raising ap- peal is planned. "So many things need to be done that Government apparatus is too big or clumsy to do," Dr. Rusk said. ""There's a place for a voluntary organization. It gets an awful lot of milage for its money." Last November, for instance, Dr. Rusk found that some pa- tients had languished for ten years in the overcrowded Ortho- pedic Hospital in Manila. They had no braces and the hospital's brace shop had no patterns or materials. Dr. Rusk was able immediately to promise ship- ment of used appliances. In two months, the program was under way. Cost: $1,000. Lilly Endowment, Inc, and the Bulova Watch Company Foun- dation. The directors include John S. Allard, Elmer H. Bobst, Donald- son Brown, Arde Bulova, Ralph K. Davies, William J. Donovan, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel, David M. Heyman, Paul G. Hoffman, Dr. Henry H. Kessler, George L. Killion, Mrs. Albert Lasker, Dr. Russell V. Lee, Dr. Charles W. Mayo, Dr. Leonard W. Mayo, James Wesley McAfee, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, Edgar M. Queeny, Mrs. Anna Rosen- berg, Beardsley Ruml, Dr. Rusk, David Sarnoff, Walter Bedell Smith, Eugene J. Taylor and Arthur K. Watson. Dr. Rusk said that the work so far had enabled study here for personnel from Haiti, Greece, Great Britain, Thailan, Poland, Belgium, the Philippines and Brazil; provided a consultant for Korea, Burma, Thailand, India and Jordan, and materials, pub- lications and demonstrations in fifteen countries. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 9/6441 Rehaith&k`on eFtmat, gig Net fork Motto ESTABLISHED 1851 REG. U. 5. PAT. OFF "All the News That's Fit to Print" ADOLPH S. OCHS, Publisher 1896-1935 Published Every Day in the Year by THS NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER Chairman of the Board Publisher ORVIL E. DRYFOOS President AMORY H. BRADFORD Vice President HARDING F. BANCROFT Secretary FRANCIS A. COX Treasurer MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1957. 400 EAST 34TH STREET NEW YORK 16. N. Y. VOLUNTARY FOREIGN AID The World Rehabilitation Fund, which was quietly established about two years ago, is doing an important job of pioneering in the field of private and strictly voluntary "for- eign aid." Its purpose is to give medical and technical help for the physically handicapped or disabled. Its work in this needful area has been warmly endorsed by President Eisenhower, and former Presidents Hoover and Truman are honorary chairmen ef the fund. The fund operates in a simple, and for that reason perhaps unusual, way. There hail been no fund-raising campaign and none is planned. There has been no appeal for government help. Private persons and founda- tions have been quietly asked if they cared to contribute. Twenty have al- ready responded with a total of more than $150,000. Much more can con- fidently be expected. With these contributions the fund ha; initiated and carried out specific projects all over the world. Twenty- sine have already been completed, five more are in operation at the moment and three more are pending. These projects include the shipment of artificial limbs to areas where they are desperately needed, supply- ing books and periodicals ( some of these have been sent to Poland and Russia as well as to many other countries), grants in aid for specific study or the actual provision of technicians, and the promotion of planned exchange of scholars and doctors. In this last field, for example, an interesting success has been an- nounced. The American President Lines, operating to the Far East, has just offered a fellowship that will enable a Filipino doctor to come to the United States for advanced and extended study of rehabilitation techniques, The fund also expects to provide post-graduate training for physicians from Great Britain, and it has already provided short study courses for persons from Greece, Brazil. Haiti, Thailand and Belgium. These things add up to a rapidly expanding humanitarian service that can be of immense importance in the promotion of international goodwill and understanding, In Manila, for example, the press greeted With the greatest enthusiasm the announce- ment of the fellowship and rejoiced that the scientific advances that had been made in this field could be shared by the Philippines. In no other field can "foreign aid" be a more effective instrument for good than in the field of health. It is our feeling that the share of health projects in the whole mutual secu- rity program has been considerably less than it might well have been. But World Rehabilitation is proving that a vast amount of good can be done in this field without relying upon appropriations from govern- ments, Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 May 30, The APL A FELLOWSHIP grant that is bound to bring far-reaching benefits to this country is that recently announc- ed by the World Rehabilitation Fund, a new international voluntary agency headed by Dr. HtYward A. Rusk, the re- nowned rehabilitation specialist and president of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples. The WRF, it will be recalled, had earlier shipped a sizable volume of re- habilitation aids, like artificial limb and brace components, to the Philip- pines, as part of a project to assist this country in the rehabilitation of its phy- sically handicapped. The WRF now seeks to expand its technical assistance program here by making it possible, under the so-called American President Lines fellowship, for Filipino doctors to go to the United States for advanced training in physical medicine. The APL has made a grant to enable recipients of the fellowship to travel to the U.S. and take postgraduate studies at the famed New York University-Bel- Shipping firm offers fellowship Extension of technical assist- ance in expanding and develop- ing rehabilitation services for the physically handicapped in the Philippines was announced yesterday as one of the high priorities of a new international voluntary agency, t h e World Rehabilitation Fund. In announcing the formation of this new voluntary agency to stimulate international un- derstanding, Dr. Howard A. Rusk, the Fund's president, also announced that the American President Lines had made a grant to the Fund to make it Possible for a physician from the Philippines to go to the United States for advanced training in physical medicine and rehabilitation. The scholarship to be known as the American President Lines Fellowship will be ad- ministered through the Inter- national Society for the Wel- fare of Cripples and its affiliate in the Philippines, the Philip- Opine Foundation for the Crip- pled. The APL Fellowship will in- clude round trip transporta- tion from Manila to New York, tuition and maintenance for a minimum of one year's post- graduate study in the Depart- ment of Physical Medicine and RehabilitatWumUwchypiJiz versity-BelreV161 ./FM/t Cen- ter. New York City: and CIA-RDP80B01676R004100210007-9 1957 Fellowship levue Medical Center, as well as go on study tours of other rehabilitation fa- cilities in the U.S. Free tuition fees and maintenance for a minimum of one year's stay in the U.S. are provided for under the scholarship. The Philippines, which has its own full share of physically disabled ? mostly victims of the last war ? would certainly benefit immensely from this fellowship. Doctors trained under the program could constitute the nucleus of a technical group here that even- tually could man a physical rehabilita- tion center such as has been envision- ed by Dr. Rusk himself. Physical medicine, with its proven scientific methods of treatment, aims not only at putting the physically dis- abled swiftly back on their feet but also at enabling them fully to readjust themselves to their work, thereby, mak- ing them assets instead of liabilities in the communities where they live. The Philippines should consider itself for- tunate in having been extended the benefits of the APL fellowship. struck YokonaMa then othe big Asian ports like Hong- kong, Singapore, Manila, Ja- karta and Saigon before spreading into the hinterland. China, Malaya, the Philip- pines, Indonesia and Indo-Chi- na have all been striken. Only Ceylon remains relatively un- touched. In mid-April about 400,000 people out of a total of 2.5 million population of Hongkong were down with the flu. Farly this month 50,000 nersons in Singapore were officially re- ported ill. in the PhilinPines total of 159 patients had died and thousands stricken. The entire-Indonesian Penin- sula has been swept lw the epidemic, with the island of Sumatra bearing the burden. Saigon and Pnom-nenh have renortod numerous eases but onlv in mild form. One fourth of Cambodia's five million no- ntilation have been affected The enidemir has shown no signs of abating. study tour of other rehabilita- tion facilities in the United States. The recipient of the fellow- ship will begin his training in the United States on January I, 1955 Annlication blanks can be secured from Dr. Deogracias Tablan, Philippine Founda- tion for the Crippled, 101)6 Isaac Peral 'AGENCY WILL AID DISABLED IN PI The World Rehabilitation Fund, a new international "voluntary agency," has announced from its New York headquarters that it would expand its technical assist- ance program to the rehabilitation of the physically handicapped the Philippines. In announcing the formation of this new voluntary agency to sti- mulate international understand- ing through sponsorship of inter- national rehabilitation projects through the world, Dr. Howard A. Rusk, the fund's president, also announced that the American President Lines had made a grant to make it possible for a physi- cian from the Philippines to go to the United States for advanced training in physical medicine and rehabilitation. The scholarship to be known as the American President Lines Fellowship will be administered through the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples and its affiliate in the Philippines, The Philippine Foundation for the Crippled. The American President Lines Fellowship will include round-trip transportation from Manila to New York on the American Pres- ident Lines, tuition and mainten- ance for a minimum of one years postgraduate study in the depart- ment of physical medicine and re- habilitation, New York university- Bellevue Medical center, and a study tour of other rehabilitation facilities in the United States. Mr. Ralph K. Davies, chairman of the board, and George L. Killion, pres- ident of A.P.L., are both members of the board of directors of the fund. Preliminary selection of the re- cipient of the American President Lines Fellowship will be made by a committee appointed by the Philippine Foundation for the Crippled. The committee will in- clude Health Secretary Paulin? Garcia; Horace DeLien, chief, /Ab- be health division, InternatioNal Cooperation administration mis- sion; Josefina Nava-Dizon; and Dr. Mariano Torres. Dr. Nava- Dizon and Dr. Torres had post- graduate training in the depart- ment of physical medicine and rehabilitation at York university- Bellevue Medical center. Manila Daily Bulletin May 29, 1957 Manila Chronicle May 29, 1957 lease 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80B01676R004100210007-9 Approved ForRe1ease_2002/08/21: CIA-RDP801301676R004100210007-9 U.S. Fellowship Available ForRehabilitation Services Extension of technical assist- ance in expanding and develop- ing rehabilitation services for the physically handicapped in the Philippines was announced Tuesday as one of the high priorities of a new internatio- nal voluntary agency, the World Rehabi- litation Fund. In announc- ing the forma- Dr. RUSK tion of this new voluntary agency to stimulate interna- tional understanding through sponsorship of international re- habilitation projects through the world, Dr. Howard A. Rusk. the Fund's president, also an- nounced that the American President Lines had made a grant to the Fund to make it possible for a physician from the Philippines to come to the United States for advanced training in physical medicine and rehabilitation. The scholarship to be known as the American President Lines fellowship will be administered through the International So- ciety for the Welfare of Crip- ples and its affiliate in the Philippines, the Philippine Foundation for the Crippled. The American President Lines Fellowship will include round trip transportation from Mani- la to New York on the Amer- ican President Lines, tuition and maintenante for a mini- mum of one year's postgraduate study in the department of physical medicine and rehabi- litation, New York University- Bellevue Medical Center, New York city; and a study tour of other rehabilitation facilities In the United States. Ralph K. Davies, chairman of the board, and George L. Killion, pres- ident, American President Lines, are both members of the board of directors of the World Reha- bilitation Fund. Preliminary selection of the recipient of the American Pres- ident Lines fellowship will be made by a committee appoint- ed by the Philippine Founda- tion for the Crippled. The com- mittee will include the Secreta- ry of Health Paulino J. Garcia; Horace DeLien, M.D., chief pub- lic health division, U.S. Inter- national Cooperation Adminis- tration operations mission; Jo- sefina Nava-Dizon, M.D., and Mariano Torres, M.D., Dr. Na- va-Dizon and Dr. Torres have had postgraduate training in the department of physical me- dicine and rehabilitation, New York University-Bellevue Medi- cal Center Approved For elease 2002/08/24 The recipient of the Amer- ican President Lines fellowship will begin his training in the United States on Jan. 1, 1958. Application blanks can be se- cured from Dr. Deogracias J. Tablan, Philippine Foundation for the Crippled, 1006 Isaac Pe- ral, Manila. A previous project of the World Rehabilitation Fund in the Philippines was the ship- ment of a large number of ar- tificial limb and brace compo- nents from the United States. Another such shipment, Dr. Rusk said, would be sent in the near future. Dr. Rusk accom- panied by Mrs. Rusk visited Ma- nila last November. Another Board member of the Fund, Dr. Henry H. Kessler, visited the Philippines in January- February, 1956, at the request of the Philippine government as consultant of the United Na- tions technical assistance pro- gram to make recommendations on the development of rehab- ilitation services for the han- dicapped. Among the other projects in which the World Rehabilitation Fund has participated. Dr. Rusk announced, were: provision of artificial limb components to Thailand; assistance for study ? In the United States to physi- cians and other rehabilitation personnel from Haiti. Greece, Great Britain, Thailand, Bel- I gium, Poland, and Brazil; pro- vision of periodicals and books on rehabilitation to France, Poland, Russia, the Philippines and Australia; and sponsorship of rehabilitation demonstrations and conference in Cuba, Indo- nesia, India, Denmark, Guate- mala, Switzerland, Great Bri- tain, and the United States. Honorary chairmen of the World Rehabilitation Fund in- clude former United States Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, Bernard M. Baruch, and Dr. Albert Schweit- zer. In expressing his hope that the Fund would be "eminently successful," President Eisenho- wer stated "Rehabilitation of the physically handicapped is of importance to all nations. By helping other peoples to help themselves, Americans ex- press their concern for all man- kind and their belief in the worth of each individual." The Philippines Herald May 29, 1957 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Ite 0 or lial *2002/08/21 4GIA-RDP80B0167 007-9 Year XXXVIII Manila, Philippines, Friday, September 13, 1957 14 Page,* ? 15 PI Orthopedic Surgeon The Evening News Awarded APL Fellowship Dr. Enrique Mangalindan, as- sistant chief of the department of physical medicine and reha- bilitation of the National Or- thopedic hospital, was awarded yesterday the $5,000 American President Lines' fellowship for advanced study in rehabilitation of the physically handicapped. (Photo on Page 3) The APL fellowship was grant- ed through the facilities of the World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc. of New York city headed by Howard A. Rusk, The International Society for the Welfare of Cripples headed by its secretary-general, Donald V. Wilson and the Philippine Foundation for the Crippled headed by its acting president, Dr. Jose S. Santillan, will assist the World Rehabilitation Fund in administering the APL fel- lowship. Dr. Mangalindan, who is now in Indonesia attending a semi- nar of the International Society for Welfare of Cripples, was chosen from a list of four fin- alists recommended by a screen- ing committee headed by Sec- retary of Health Paulino Garcia. The other three' candidates were Dr. Eufrocina Vasquez Sison, resident radiologist of the Philippine General hospital, Dr. Sergio Pineda, junior resident of the National Orthopedic hos- pital, and Dr. Juan Fernandez, leprologist surgeon of the Tale leprosarium. The award was. made at a luncheon at the Manila Hotel given in honor of the candidates and Donald V. Wilson, secreta- ry-general of the International Society for the Welfare of Crip- ples, who made a special trip to the Philippines for the occa- sion. Special guests, headed by United States Ambassador Boh- len, included Dr. Arsenio Rega- le, representing Secretary Gar- cia, Dr. Deogracias J. Tablan, Dr. Josefina Nava-Dizon, Rus- sell Swartley of Meralco, Perry Hansen of the UNICEF and Wil- liam Copeland of the U.S. em- bassy. Hosts of the luncheon were officials of API. headed by Sam Mercer, assistant vice president of American Lines, Stanley Hea- ley,. managing director of APL Manila, and Edgar King, acting manager of passenger traffic. In brief talks after the lunch- eon, Ambassador Bohlen, Wil- son, Mercer, Dr. Regala and Dr. Santillan unanimously shared the belief that the rehabilita- tion of the physically handi- capped was of great importance to all nations hnd that no ges- ture could engender greater friendship among peoples of the world than the common desire to render unselfish assistance to the disabled, irrespective of their color or creed. The APL fellowship covers round-trip transportation from the Philippines to the United States and tuition and main- tainance for not less than one year's advanced study and training at the Institute of Phy- sical Medicine and Rehabilita- tion, New York University-Bel- levue Medical Center. The fellowship also provides for special experience in pedia- tric and geriatric rehabilitation, management of respirator pa- tients, and a study tour of the best rehabilitation facilities in the United States. Speaking for the World Re- habilitation Fund, Dr. Rusk said, 'the APL fellowship provides a pattern which we expect and hope will be followed by many nations. There will be no gen- eral public fund raising cam- paign in behalf of the Fund." Dr. Rusk further explained: "Financial suport will come from corporations, foundations and individuals. We want the people of the World to see tangible evi- dence through work with the physically handicapped that American industry is interest- ed in the welfare, not only of the workers who make its pro- ducts and services, but those throughout the world who con- sume them." SATURDAY, SEPT. 14, 1957 PHOTO above was taken' last Thursday at the Manila Hotel dur- ing the selection of the grantee of the American President Lines fellowship for advanced study in the rehabilitation, of the phys- ically handicapped. From left: Dr. Jose S. Seintillan. pine Foundation for? the Crippled: US Amibasqador Charles, E. Bohlen: and Sam N. Meroec, assistant vice president Of Hie: American President lines. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : Cl MANILA BULLETIN, SAT., SEPT. 14, 1957 AT LINES' FETE. Photo was taken at the luncheon given at the Manila hotel by American President Lines officials in honor, of the candidates for the A.P.L. fellowship in orthopedic medicine and Donald V. Wilson, seeretary.general of the International .So- :slaty for the Welfare of Cripples. Left to right: Mr. Wilson, who will assist in the administration of the 95,000 awase14,Dr. Sergio Pineda, candidate for the award; DT. Eufroeina Vas- quez Sison, another candidate; U.S. Ambassador Charles lioh- _gandidate; and Sam Mer- -i1V,PleIVISIMPtte Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 friday, Sdptember 13, 1957 THE PHILIPPINES HERALD APL Fellowship In Orthopedic Medicine Awarded DONALD V. WILSON, secretary-general of the International Society for the Welfare of Crip- ples, addressed yesterday's luncheon given by American President Lines officials at the Ma- nila hotel in connection with the selection of an APL Fellowship in orthopedic medicine. Oth- ers in photo are, from left, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, Sam Mercer of APL, Dr. Ar- senio Re gala, Stanley Healy of APL, and Dr. Deogracias J. Tablan of the Philippine Foun- dation for the Crippled. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 The MAPINItv'ettffialiattsC0021902*:Silifeliii:NOCIENIMR004100210007-9 At API. luncheon SOME of the guests at a luncheon civ- the department of physical medicine and en yesterday at the Manila Hotel by rehabilitation of the National Ortho- American President Lines officials in pedic Hospital, who incidentally is now honor of candidates for the APL fellow- in Indonesia attending a seminar of the ship in orthopedic medicine and Donald International Society for the Welfare of V. Wilson, secretary-general of the In- Cripples. Among the guests were from ternational Society for the Welfare of left Donald V. Wilson, secretary-gen- Cripples who, in collaboration with the eral of the I.S.W.C.; Dr. Sergio Pineda, Philippine Foundation for the Crippled, a candidate; Dr. Eufrocina Vasquez Si- will assist in the administration of the son, another candidate; U.S. Ambassador $5,000 APL Fellowship, are shown above. Bohlen, Dr. Juan Fernandez, candidate; The APL Felowship was awarded to ?Dr. and Sam Mercer, assistant vice presi- ? Enrique Manga/indan, assistant chief of dent of American President Lines. APL $5,000 fellowship for PI doctor awarded Dr. Enrique Mangalindan, assistant chief of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation of the National Orthopedic hospital was awarded yesterday the $5,000 American President Lines fellowship for advanced study isa rehabi litation of the physically handicapped. The APL fellowship was granted through the facilities of the World Rehabilitation Fund, Int., of New York City headed by Howard A. Rusk. The International Socie- ty for the Welfare of Crip- ples 'headed by its secreta- ry-general, Donald V. Wil- son, and the Philippine Foundation for the Crip- pled headed by Dr. Jose S. Santillan, will assist the World Rehabilitation Fund In administering the APL fellowship. Dr. Mangalindan is now In Indonesia attending a seminar of the Internation- al Society for Welfare of Cripples. He was chosen from a list of four finalists recommended by a screen- ing committee headed by Secretary of Health Pauli- no Garcia. The other, three candi- dates were Dr. Eufrocina Vasquez Sison, resident ra- diologist of the Philippine General hospital; Dr. Ser- gio Pineda, Aniarcredst of the National. Orthopedic' hospital; and Dr. Juan Fernandez, leprologist sur- geon of the Tale Leprosa- rium. The award was made at luncheon yesterday at the Manila Hotel given in hon- or of the candidates and Donald V. Wilson, secreta- ry-general of the Interna- tional Society for the Wel- fare of Cripples, who made a special trip to the Philip- pines for the occasion. Special guests, headed by United States Ambassador Bohlen, included Dr. Ar- senio Regala, representing Secretary Garcia, Dr. Deo- gracias J. Tablan, Dr. Jose- fina Nava-Dizon, Russell Swartley of Meralco, Per- ry Hansen of the UNICEF and William Copeland of the U.S. Embassy. r Rolt4tiasef26012/08424071 were APL officials includ- ing Sam Mercer, assistant vice president of American President Lines; Stanley Healey, managing director of APL Manila; and Edgar King, acting manager of Passenger Traffic. Ambassador Bohlen, Wil- son, Mercer, Dr. Regala and Dr. Santillan unani- mously shared the belief that the rehabilitation of the physically handicapped Is of great importance to all nations and that no ges- ture could engender great- er friendship among peo- ples ot the world than the common desire to render unselfish assistance to the disabled, irrespective of their color or creed. The APL fellowship cov- ers round-trip transporta- tion from the Philippines to the United States and for not less than one year's advanced study and train- ing at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Re- habilitation, New York University-Bellevue Medi- cal Center. In addition, it provides for special experience in pediatric and geriatric re- habilitation, management of respirator patients, and a study tour of the best rehabilitation facilities in the United States. Speaking for the World Rehabilitation Fund, Dr. Rusk said, "the APL fel- lowship provides a pattern which we expect and hope will be followed by many nations. There will be no general pubic fund rais- ing campaign in behalf of the fund," Dr. Rusk ex- ifihki5P8N309181VMMTOMIE61007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 THE MANILA 'MB 2 Um.. 13, 1957 Fl medio gets APL fellowship Dr. Enrique Mangelinden, assiStant chief of the depart- ment of physical medicine and rehabilitation,. 'National Or- thopedic Has- p fta 1, was awarded yes- terday the lismo .Atneri- Xa_n, 'President Okea- fellow- 'Alp' for ad- vanced studyIn reha.hilita- .: , tion of the Mangaiindan physically handicapped. into APL _Fellowship was greeted through the facilities hf 'We' World Rehabilitation Fti4di Inc. of New York \City headed, by Howard A. Rusin' The International Society for the Welfare of Cripples, head- ed by its secretary-general, Donald VI Wilson, and the Philippine Foundation for the Crippled, under ? Dr. ?Jose S. Santillan, will assist the World Rehabilitation Fund in admtn-r istering the APL fellowship, Dr. Mangalindan, wtto is now in Indonesia attending a semi' oat of the International So- ciety for Welfare of Cripples, was chosen from a list of four finalists recommended by a Screening committee headed by Secretary of Health Pauline The other three candidates were Dia. Eufrocina Vasquez Sison, resident radiologist of tille Philippine general ? hos& Lai; Dr, 'Sergio Pineda, junior resident of the National On :thppedic hospital, and Dr, Auan Fernandez, ?eprelogist. Surgeon of the Tala leprosa-; riurn: The award was made at lumt elleon.yesterday at the Manila Hetet given in honor of the aandidates.,and Donald V. Wil- son,, who made a special trip to ?Lhe Philippines for the 6c! A.P.L. LUNCFIEON FOR FELLOWS? A luncheon -was given yesterday at the Ma- nila Hotel by the American President Lines in honor of Dr. Donald Wilson, second from right, secretary general of the International Society for the Welfare of the Crippled in the United States, and Dr. Enrique Manga- lindan, who will train in the Institute of Physical Rehabilitation and Medicine in New York on an APL fellowshp. Also pre- sent 'Were US Ambassador Charles Bohlen, Dr. Deogracias Tablan, Dr. Arsenio Re gala, Sam Mercer and Dr. Jose Santillan. Dr. Man galindan is nowin Indonesia attending a medical seminar. (Story on last 2ktge) and :William Copelanct of the U.S. embassy. Hosts of the luncheon' were officials of APL headed by Sam Mercer, assist- ant vice president' of Ameri- can President Lines, Stanley Healey, managing director of APL Manila and Edgar King, acting manager of passenger traffic. The APL felloVtship covers round-trip transportation from the Philippines to the United States and tuition and ma;n- tenance for not less than one year's advanced study and training at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Reha- bilitation, New York Univer sity-Bellevue Medical Center. In addition, it provides for spe- cial experience in pediatric and geriatric rehabilitation, man, agement of respirator patients, and a study Wu' of the hest rehabilitatien facilities in the United States. ca.sion- Special guests, headed by United States Ambassatior Bohlen, included Dr. Arsenio li,egala, representing Secretary 'Garcia, Dr. Deogracias J. Tab-. 'Jan; Dr.' Josefina Nava-Dizon, Russell, Swartley of M kg,..ved Perry Hansen of _the law THE DAILY MIRROR, FRIDAY, SEPT, 13., 157 NOH Medic Wins APL Award For U.S. Study Dr. Enrique Mangalindan, assistant chief of the depart- ment of physical medicine and rehabilitation of the National Orthopedic Hospital, was awarded the $5000 American President Lines Fellowship for advanced study in rehabi- litation of the physically han- dicapped. The APL Fellowship' was granted through the faci- lities of the World Rehabilita- tion Fund, Inc. of New York City headed, by Howard A. Rusk. The International Society for the Welfare of Cripples headed by its secretary-gener- al, Donald V. Wilson, and the Philippine Foundation for the ,Crippled, headed by its acting president, Dr. Jose S. Sand- llan, will assist the World Re- habilitation Fund in adminis- tering the APL Fellowship. Dr. Marlgalindan, who Is now in Indonesia attending a seminar of the International Society for Welfare of Crip- ples, was chosen from a list of four finalists recommended /by a screening committee head- ed by Health Secretary Pau- line Garcia. The other three candidates were Dr. Eufrocina ?Vaseplez Sison, resident radio- logist of the Philippine Gene- ral Hospital, Dr. Sergio- Pine- da, junior resident of the Na- tional Orthopedic Hospital, and Dr. Juan Fernandez, le- prologist surgeon of the Taltv Leorosarium. The award was i made at luncheon yesterday at the Ma- nila Hotel given in honor of the candidates and Wilson who made a special trip to the Phil- ippines for the occasion. The APL Fellowship covers round-trip transportation from the Philippfnes to the United States and tuition and main- tenance for not less than one year's advanced study and training at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehab- ilitation, New York University. Bellevue Medical Center. In addition, it provides for spe- cial experience in pediatric and geriatric rehabilitation, management of respirator pa- tients, and a study tour of the best rehabilitation facilities in The United States. For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 API Names Group To Screen kills For Fellowship Selection of a Committee of of the world and with shippers prominent Philippine physicians, and travelers from virtually headed by Dr. Paulin() Garcia, every nation in the world, Amer- secretary of health of the Repub- lean President Lines seeks regu- lic? of the Philippines, to screen larly to support sound and prog- applicants for a $5,000 American ressive economic and socialprog- President Lines Fellowship in rams by which the United States orthopedic medicine, has been an- can assist other nations, Mr, K.11 nounced by President George lion said, Killion of American President The World Rehabilitation Fund, Lines, which is the medium for the pre- The APL Fellowship will bring sent APL program of medical as- a qualified Philippine physician sistanoe to the Philippines, is to the United States for advanc- headed by Dr, Howard A. Rusk, ed study in rehabilitation of the Chairman of the Department of physically handicapped. It was Physical Medicine and Rehab'11- granted through the facilities of tation of the New York Univer- the World Rehabilitation Fund, sity-Bellevue Medical Center, Inc., of New York City and is New York City, and an editor the first of a series of interna- of the New York Times. The tional scholarships being arrang- Fund was ket up to expedite In ed by that organization. dependent self assistance in the As a corporation providing less developed areas of the world shipping services to 20 nations, and thereby to make a U.S. oon- mreqhc, SFr t41957 tribution to the welfare of dis- abled persons, no matter where located. Ralph K. Davies, board chair- man of APL, and Killion both serve on the Board of Directors of the World Rehabilitation Fund. Honorary Chairmen include for- mer Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, Bernard M, Baruch and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, The Philippine Foundation for the Crippled and the Internatio- nal Society for the Welfare of Cripples will assist the World Re- habilitation Fund in adminis- tering the APL Fellowship, ? The APL Fellowship covers 'round-trip transportation from the Philippines to the United States and tuition and mainten- ance for not less than one year's advanced study and training at the Institute of Physical Medi- cine and Rehabilitation, New York University-Bellevue Medi- cal Center In addition, it pro- vide for special experience in pe- diatric and geriatric rehabilita- tion, management of respirator patients and a study tour of the best rehabilitation facilities in the United States. To be eligible for the Fellow- ship, candidates must hold a deg- ree in medicine from a recogniz- ed medical school, have had at least one year's internship or its equivalent, and possess a work- ing knowledge of English, both ;general and medical, The Fel- lowship may be awarded to a physician without prior specialty training or to a recognized spe- cialists in internal medicine, or- thopedic surgery, neurology or public health, who wishes to in- crease his knowledge of physical medicine and rehabilitation and explore the relationship of his field to his primary specialty. Speaking for the World Reha- bilitation Fund. Dr. Rusk said, "The APL Fellowship provides a pattern which we expect and hope will be folowed by many nations. In the field of foreign trade, no gesture could engender greater friendship 'than an un- selfish assistance for the disabled people of foreign nations." Besides Dr. Garcia the com- mittee is composed of D. Horace De Lien public health division chief, ICA-Manila; Dr. Josefina Nava-Dizon; and Dr. Mariano Torres ? Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Report of The President to the Board of Directors of the WORLD REHABILITATION FUND The fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, was the first full year of operation for the World Rehabilitation Fund. During the year, your offices and executive committee remained unchanged. We were fortunate in that Mr. Arthur K. Watson, Dr. Henry H. Kessler, Dr. Russell V. Lee and Mr. John S. Allard accepted our invitations to become members of the Board of Directors. It was with regret that we accepted the resignation from the Board of Mr. Zellerbach which was prompted by Mr. Zellerbach's appointment as the American Ambassador to Italy. During the year your President had the opportunity for first-hand observations of rehabilitation needs and services in Switzerland, Denmark, Finland., the Soviet Union, Australia, the Philippines, Korea, Ireland, France, Poland and Great Britain. He also had the opportunity of discussing inter- national rehabilitation needs and services with officials of the United Nations, International Labour Organization, and World Health Organization; many international voluntary and professional organizations; and officials of the government of the United States. These observations and discussions convinced him even more of the unique contribution which international reha- bilitation services have in making American concepts of democracy more fully understood by the people of the world. There are many incidences which stand out vividly illustrating this point. The first of these was in the Philippines, which Mrs. Rusk and the President visited in November. In one of the wards of a large hospital there, he saw 100 men with broken backs who had been hospitalized for years. This hospital had the services of an able young physician who had been trained in the United States. The one thing standing between lives of dependency and self-sufficiency for these 100 men was the lack of braces. The President informed the hospital staff that the World Rehabilitation Fund would see that sufficient brace components were sent immediately from the United States to make it possible for these 100 men to walk again. There was no press con- ference, no public announcement, but the next day word of what the Fund had promised went around like wildfire. All of the newspapers carried front-page articles on this contribution of American industry and two carried front-page editorials. The late President Magsaysay then sent work asking the President to have dinner with him so he could thank him personally. Upon his return to New York, his associates and the President secured enough used brace components to meet the needs of these 100 men and they were shipped to Manila at a cost of less than one thousand dollars. Later a shipment at the same cost was made of new brace and artificial limb parts. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 2 - Although the actual expenditures during the past fiscal year were not large, you can see from the attached statement of "Projects Completed" that a tremendous amount was accomplished at a very small cost. It became increasingly evident to your Executive Committee in the early fall of 1956, that the Fund's fund-raising program could be implemented successfully only by individual discussions regarding the Fund's program by your officers with corporation executives. This is a slow process, but it is the only one which the President believes can and will bring results. He has accordingly arranged his own schedule so that he may hold one or two conferences each week on behalf of the Fund. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the Fund received con- tributions of $87,041. 36, had an excess of income over expenditures of 29,729. 07, and ended the fiscal year with a cash balance of $55, 563.26. Attached is a Functional Statement of Expenditures. Reflected in the $11,252 expended on Administration and Fund-Raising is a non-recurring expenditure of $2,865. Currently the Fund's paid employees consist of a multilingu.al secretary-bookkeeper and the services of Mr. Eugene J. Taylor as Secretary-Treasurer on a part-time basis. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation has made a grant of $6,000 to the Fund to pay the full salary and expenses of Mr. Taylor. The Fund incurs no expenses for office rent, electricity, telephone or similar costs. Based on current experience, we anticipate the total fund-raising and administration costs of the Fund will be approximately 36,000 per year exclusive of the services and expenses of Mr. Taylor which are provided through a grant from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. The good which the World Rehabilitation Fund can and is doing is exemplified by our activities in Poland. Mrs. Rusk and the President visited Poland in 1949 on behalf of the United Nations to help Poland plan its national rehabilitation services. They returned again this past year. There has been a complete change in the attitudes of the Poles whom they met. They are avid to have professional contacts with the West. The Fund is helping to make that possible. We provided a travel grant to bring one of Poland's leading orthopedic surgeons to the United States to speak at the American Congress of Orthopedic Surgery. The Fund provided trans- portation for two young Polish physicians to take a six month's course in rehabilitation at Western Reserve University in Cleveland after which they will spend two months in New York. We have provided text and reference books and periodicals for the new school of physical therapy in Warsaw. Three delegates from Poland attended the Seventh World Congress of the International Society for the Welfare of Cripples where they spoke on the program and presented a film and an exhibit. Last year Poland formed the first voluntary organization to exist there since World War II in order that it might become an affiliate of the International Society. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 - 3 - To your President these are matters of real significance to which the World Rehabilitation Fund is making a fundamental contribution not only to rehabilitation but to international understanding. We hope this program of service will be greatly augmented in the coming year. Howard A. Rusk, M. D. President Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9 Functional Statement of Expenditures July 1, 1956 - June 30, 1957 Contributions Received $87, 041. - Grants to other organizations to support informational and consultation services, international seminars, etc. 31% 27, 593. - Twelve short-term and partial scholarships for study in the U.S. of rehabilitation personnel from Poland, Thailand, Haiti, Colombia, Brazil, Ireland, Belgium, the Philippines and Turkey 5, 887. - Shipments of text and reference books, periodicals and brace and prosthetic parts and materials to other nations 2, 799. - Professional consultation services to govern- ments and voluntary agencies in Ireland, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Finland, the Philippines, Korea, Australia, Denmark and Mexico; conferences with International Labour Organization and World Health Organi- zation; and representation at the 7th World Congress, International Society for the Welfare of Cripples, London; Fourth International Poliomyelitis Congress, Geneva; Second International Congress of Physical Medicine, Copenhagen; First National Rehabilitation Congress, Mexico; and Caribbean Rehabilitation Conference, Miami Beach 12% 10,231. - Excess of income over expenditures 34% 29, 729. - Administration and fund-raising * 13% 11, 252. - * It should be noted that this item included non-recurring expenditures for permanent equipment and that the Fund received a specific grant of $6,000 for the purpose of paying the major portion of its administrative expenses. When these items are considered the administrative and fund- raising costs are substracted (8,387), the costs were $2,865 or approxi- mately 3% of its income. Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP80601676R004100210007-9