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At a plenary session of the Council of Delegates held on September 9, 1963 on the occasion of the Congress of the International Red Cross in Geneva, Mr. Léopold Boissier, who was presiding, made the announcement that H.I.M. the Empress of Japan proposed making a personal donation to the Shôken Fund. She thus wished to mark the year preceding the fiftieth anniversary of that fund, at the same time as the Centenary of the Red Cross in which she shows a special interest as patron of the National Society of Japan. Her gift, amounting to 3,600,000 yen, representing the equivalent of about 43,000 Sw.frs., is intended to increase the inalienable fund.
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- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 3 , Issue 31 , October 1963 , pp. 518 - 529
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1963
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It will be recalled that the International Review has undertaken the publication of a series of articles dedicated to the outstanding personalities who, within the Red Cross, took upon themselves to give generous support to a great cause. The article that follows, like those preceding it, was written by one of the ICRC staff, and forms part of the series of articles which has so far presented historical studies on the Empresses Augusta and Maria Feodorovna (See September 1961 and August 1962).
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page 519 note 1 Plate.
A leaflet has been produced, from which we have extracted two photos. They show the Empress at the bedside of wounded troops, accompanied by the Emperor, and at the Hiroshima Military Hospital, dignified and beautiful, accompanied by her maid of honour.