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The INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MENTAL HEALTH is being held in London, England, August 11th to 21st, 1948. The Congress will mobilize the efforts of many different professional groups for the study and application of the principles essential to the building of harmonious human relations. It is to be the first phase of a new program of world planning for mental health. Preliminary organization of the Congress is being carried out by the National Association for Mental Health of England. The Congress is to consist of three Conferences. The main one of these, the International Conference on Mental Hygiene, is sponsored by the International Committee for Mental Hygiene.

The International Committee for Mental Hygiene is proposing the formation of a World Federation for Mental Health which will replace the present International Committee and which will be incorporated some time within the next few months. At the Congress in London a permanent Constitution and By-Laws will be adopted by the World Federation for Mental Health and a Board will be organized consisting of democratically elected delegates from many countries. The new World Federation for Mental Health will then apply to UNESCO and the World Health Organization of the United Nations for recognition as the official international voluntary organization in the field of mental health.

The preliminary tentative program of the Conference on Mental Hygiene, which was intentionally planned to be broad enough to elicit the interest of many different professional groups, is Mental Health and World Citizenship. The Executive Committee of the International Committee for Mental Hygiene decided that within this broad program the focus of the United States effort should be, 'What has war done to the children of the world, and what can we do about it?'