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Brazilian Olympic New Colours HAMMARSKJOLD
Swimmer
Starts Crusade
By Haig Nicholson
Rio de Janeiro, Apr. 30.
The Brazilian swimming champion, Piedade
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LEAF
Meeting
the
country in the Olympic Games, has now dedicated her life to the rehabilitation of child and adult victims of poliomyelitis, generally called polio, by teaching them to swim.
Dona Pledade--a Christian and he himself has become name which incans Piety--has different person.
been helping polio victims
fur
The boy who was so short a
20 years, but now she has turn-time ago timid and shy, and
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od her back on the competitive who in boleg sorry for himself swimming which has brought mads others sorry for him,
now a different person.
her fame and has big plans for the future,
Bhe was still a teen-uge girl when her sympathy for polio
first aroused. On
"The Orst thing to do,"
sald Dona Pledude, "is to gain the confidence of the children and I seem to have the knack of du-
the fashionable, sun-drenched ing that. The children, too, gain Copacobana beach, where she confidence in themselves, usual- was lying, there came a mother |ly in a week. helping her crippled doughter
The Beginning
"She was a beautiful girl of eight," said Donu Piedade, "but she had a twisted and tortured walk resulting from polio.
how "When they learn
to swim, they develop a new feel- irst of independence and there is a great psychological change after all, when they are that, they are not so different from other children.'
The pool, which is the only The mother helped her pollo rehabilitation centre of its daughter into the water but the kind in Brazil, is used not only kuri was cousing her deulty by children but by grown-ups Dona Pledude went to the [as well. There is, for example, mother's help. The mother re- a teen-age girl who was attack- cognited Dona Piedade as the ed by pollo three years ago, She rising winning star she then could only move about
on two WAY, and asked her if she sticks and always with someone would help to touch her daugh- else's assistance. ter to swim.
Strict Supervision
She said she would. That was the beginning. When she was in nut occupied in training or compotitive swimming. she helped child vielima of potio to As swimm
At first, she used club pools but in one after another parents ubjected to their
healthy children swimming with children who were crippled with the disease.
Then the mother of one
of
She, too, come under the care of Dona Plodade a few weeks result of exercise in the pool she is already walking alone with only one stick.
"I hope it will not be long before I throw that
вле жду
she told me,
Piedade's work is done under striet medical supervision, a card Each of her pupils has recording accurately the extent
the of disablity and
DTVETESS made under her care.
If they have
for u pay
the moner treatment
they receive, they But there are many poor wasted children starting out on the road to full health just because Donat
her pupils placed a private pool in the garden of her house at the dispani of Donu Pledade. It is not a big pool, only fifteen feet by nine, but each day it a place where laughing children bring back strength to
limbs while their mothers look
pay
on with smiles which show theledade wants to see them well.
load that is being lifted their shoulders.
'Catch Me'
from
Standing on the edge of the pt at 55 Hua Martins Ferreira
"Catch
They pay nothing.
Even though it is a small pool there is a time and a place for everyone.
There are many exercises of Buld beneft to polio vletimą," Dona Piedade, "but I think
Ja the io suburb of Botafogo has been proved that swimming today. Paulinho (Little Paul) is the best of all, I am treat- Nather ia hereby piven may be seen saying to Dona ing not only polio victims but in the niso girls who have spinal in- Extraordinary Piedade as she stands that
wateri
meliere 1 Juries and mothers suffering General Meeting
come." He Jumps luto the water, from the effects of childbirth." Shareholders of the Society is caught by Domu Piedade, and Dona Piedade's dream is of a will be held at the Head starts swimming. Only a few larger rehabilitation centre with Oflee of the
not moven bigger swimming pool and all Society, works ago he could Alexandra House, Ice House thinner than the left. Now he proved value to polio victims. --- his right leg which is much the other modern equipment of Street, Hong Kong, on Thura moves easily through the water China Mall Special. day the 24th day of May 1956 at 11.45 am. or su soon after. wards n the Ordinary Yearly Meeling to be held at 11.30 um. un that day shall have concluded when the subjoined Resolution will be proposed as
Special Resolution:--
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ON
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DRAFT AGREEMENT
Cairo, Apr. 30.
United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold conferred this morning with Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Mahmoud Fawzi ̧ before leaving this afternoon for Israel.
Well-Informed sources said the meeting concerned Mr Hom- marsicjold's draft agreement
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| Egyptian-Jenel border tension.
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WOLF WHISTLING PARROT GETS JOB
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as a whole
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question,
tho end Egyptians have supported them
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Progress On Indo-China
London, Apr. 30 Authoritative sources reported "slow progress" today, in the Anglo-Sovlei negotintions on the indo-China stalemate.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis- ter Andrel Gromyko and Lord Reading, Minister of State at the Foreign Ofice, held another session today as representatives of the Geneva-Indo-China con- ferences co-chairmen.
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