1. Origins: when is an agency born? -- 2. Bursting out of the GULAG prison -- 3. France: no moratorium on the works of mersy -- 4. Italy: war and its aftermath in a poor country -- 5. Poland and Eastern Europe: the closing door -- 6. Germany: desolation of defeat -- 7. The displaced persons: endangered species -- 8. The expelled -- 9. Heaven is communication.