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should fly to Jassy, the capital of Moldavia. Swedish
relief work under the auspices of the Save the
Children Society had been going on there for a long
time, The conditions connected with our departure
gave evidence of the degree of Russian influence
in Romania. When we arrived at the Bucharest
airport, we were told we could not take off. The
Russian control commission had given no
instructions, there was no gasoline, and so forth. We
started to telephone everywhere, and finally we
were informed that we could leave the airfield.
In Jassy and its environs we saw a number of
heartrending scenes. I remember a camp for
children, very primitive and dilapidated. The small,
obviously undernourished patients were sitting
there in temporary barracks, which often lacked
both mattresses and sheets, with hands folded and
empty eyes staring ; it was painful to witness their
unhappiness. I also remember a hospital where a
typhoid epidemic had broken out, and where one
saw as many as three patients in one bed., Nor shall
I ever forget the crowd of exhausted, ragged,
hungry and crying people which stopped our car
in a country valley. These people, with their stiff
haggard faces had gathered to ask us to open a
canteen in their village nearby. Mothers held out
their babies, their faces wrinkled and old. They
showed us bags of flour of which they baked their
bread. It looked totally unfit for consumption.
After brief negociating by one of the Romanian
representatives in our group, we promised that a canteen
would be established.
Then there was the Romanian relief organiza-
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