ABSTRACT

The undeveloped, underdeveloped, and otherdeveloped (colonial) countries were beginning to make it plain that they would no longer be content to share so unequally in the world's knowledge and abundance. After the First World War and even more strikingly after the Second, missionaries from the historic churches showed greater readiness to recognize their own mistakes and to study the culture as well as the language of the foreign land. Secular as well as religious agencies also played important parts in the new emphasis on technical assistance as a means of creating better lives in the world's developing areas. With the recogntion of Israeli independence, Hadassah, in cooperation with the new government, began an active diphtheria immunization program in schools and infant welfare clinics and helped combat malaria and tuberculosis with support from the Workers Sick Fund, the Anti-Tuberculosis League, and the World Health Organization.