Before I go any further perhaps fit will be well for me to tell you something about the purposes and functions of the Workd's Committee of the Y.M.C.A.s, the organization that I represent. In brief, it is the federating unit of the' national C.A. movements all the world over, Or, sometimes, it is regarded as a clearing house of world thoughts and ideas, especially those that have intimate relationships with the setivities of our Associ tions, "Another function of this World's Committee is to supervise the activities of the occupied fields and to open and develop new fields.
Perhaps the most important and significant part of our work has been done since the Great War. One of the outstanding results of the war was the creation or remaking of new republics on the Jeontinent of Europe. Six out of these 13 are brand new countries born as a result of the Great War,
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