The United Nations Today-Xx-xx-48

This is the United Nations. From Lake Success we present an authoritative account of significant international developments, the United Nations today. In the next fifteen minutes you will hear the story of what the United Nations proposes to do to help the underdeveloped countries of the world. You will hear a brief report on the UN's activities in the field of narcotic drugs, and then we will present a special interview

with a young woman who will describe the work now being done to feed and clothe hungry destitute children. First here is the remarkable story just released of the United Nations plan to improve living conditions in the underdeveloped areas of the world.

Most of the people hearing this particular program live in the developed and industrial countries of the world. And often we tend to forget that by far the great majority of the people on this globe of ours live in countries which are underdeveloped. Underdeveloped, that's a sort of technical word. What it means is that people who live in those countries haven't

got many of the daily things and services which we often regard as necessities. It's It's in terms like that that we can say that two-thirds of the world's people are living in poverty. The great majority of people in these countries don't have the reasonably well-balanced meals that we eat here.

Their housing is often notoriously poor. Their lives are often limited in perspective, all because the economy of that country is, there's no escape from the word, underdeveloped. It might only in the last few years that people have come to realize that the problem this sets to all the world's leaders is a problem which can best be solved through and