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^{page 178 note 1} The Marquis de Vogüé, President of the French Red Cross.

^{page 179 ntoe 1} Councillor d'Oom, delegate of the Russian Red Cross.

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^{page 179 note 3} The text quoted by the International Red Cross Handbook since its first edition (1889) gives the words “moral solidarity” (p. 92). According to the summary records of the Karlsruhe Conference, “community of principle” was the term adopted in the meeting.

^{page 180 note 1} Henry Dunant had already foreseen, in the second edition of A Memory of Solferino (1863)Google Scholar, this peace-time role of relief societies.

^{page 181 note 1} The Red Cross Societies of the United States of America, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan.

^{page 184 note 1} From 1919 to 1925, the upper body of the League was the General Council; from 1925, the Board of Governors.

^{page 184 note 2} Commission d'étude de l'organisation de la Croix-Rouge Internationale, Second rapport de la minorité (Study Commission on the Organization of the International Red Cross, Second minority report), Paris, 1925 Google Scholar, by Robert E. Olds and Sir Arthur Stanley, p. 14. (In French.)

^{page 185 note 1} Dr Serge Bagotzky, delegate of the Russian Red Cross Society with the ICRC, La Réorganisation de la Croix-Rouge Internationale (The Reorganization of the International Red Cross), Berne, published by the Russian Red Cross Society, 1924 Google Scholar. (In French.)

^{page 186 note 1} Dunning, Henry W., Elements for the history of the League of Red Cross Societies, published by the League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva, 12 1969, p. 43.Google Scholar

^{page 186 note 1} Judge Payne to Ador, Gustave, 9 05 1927.Google Scholar

^{page 187 note 1} “Reading Article IV, you will see that the Council of Delegates, while taking on the new tasks to be discussed later, will ensure the continuity of the work of the Commission of Delegates, which is an integral part of the Conference in its traditional form. Its composition only differs from that of the special Commission of Delegates in the addition of a delegate of the League. It follows that there is no question of depriving the Council of Delegates of any of the prerogatives up to now accorded to the special Commission of Delegates.” Colonel Draudt and Max Huber, Report to the Thirteenth International Conference of the Red Cross on the Statutes of the International Red Cross.

^{page 187 note 2} The term “General Assembly” has since been revived to replace that of “Board of Governors” (1976 Constitution of the League).

^{page 189 note 1} Huber, Max to Gouttes, Paul Des, 16 08 1928.Google Scholar

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^{page 192 note 3} Op. cit., p. 130.

^{page 192 note 4} Report of the special commission charged with studying the means of reinforcing the effectiveness of ICRC action, Seventeenth International Conference (Stockholm, 1948).Google Scholar

^{page 193 note 1} The statutes of the two institutions are only considered here in relation to the Statutes of the International Red Cross.

^{page 195 note 1} Mr François-Poncet, represented by Mr J. de Truchis de Varennes, Lord Woolton, represented first by Mr W. Phillips, then by Miss E. Bark, and Mr T. W. Sloper, the Chairman.

^{page 199 note 1} The Quakers (American Society of Friends) took responsibility for relief in the Gaza strip.

^{page 199 note 2} League-ICRC Agreement of 2 November 1956, amended on 27 November.

^{page 206 note 1} Final report: An agenda for the Red Cross, by Mr D. D. Tansley, director of the Study Group on the re-appraisal of the role of the Red Cross.

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