On July 9, 1859, readers of the Journal de Genève could read a heart-rending appeal, coming from Solferino, of which we quote the following passages:

For 3 days I have been treating the wounded from Solferino at Castiglione and have cared for more than one thousand men in misery. We have had 40,000 wounded, of which as many Allies as Austrians, involved in this terrible affair. There are not sufficient doctors, and I had to replace them as well as I could with the help of some local women and some prisoners who were in a fit condition.

Dr. Bruno Beretta, Delegate of the ICRC at the headquarters of the Royalist Forces pointed out that prisoners owe their lives to the precepts of the Geneva Conventions which the combatants are beginning to recognize. Groups of prisoners are held in areas which are often very difficult to reach and the delegate has made various representations to the Royalist authorities to have them evacuated and even in some cases for their release. He personally visited a further group of three. It can also be pointed out that twenty-four nationals of the UAR interned in Saudi Arabia, after having been taken prisoner in the Yemen, have been repatriated, the delegate of the ICRC himself escorting them as far as Cairo. Some time ago during his stay in the capital of the UAR, Dr. Beretta was authorized to visit twenty-four members of the Imam's family placed under assigned residence in a villa.

Under this title a play was broadcast by Radio Geneve, on May 8, 1963. For fourteen years an emission—sponsored by the ICRC and the League and the European Broadcasting and Television Union—was devoted to the Red Cross, leading up to the anniversary of Henry Dunant's birth. Relayed by an ever increasing number of broadcasting societies, it now covers four continents.

The action first of all. Since its foundation a hundred years ago, the International Committee has continuously brought relief to war victims. To fulfil this particular vocation, it has sent delegates all over the world, who have intervened, frequently at great personal risk; between the armed and the unarmed, detainer and detainee, combatant and wounded, the strong and the weak.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has received numerous messages on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of its foundation. The International Review started publishing them in its March and April numbers of 1963. Most of these from the National Societies contain, at the same time, a few words of thanks for the silver-gilt medal awarded by the ICRC as a token of gratitude. We continue therefore to publish the letters and telegrams which we have received and which are most of them signed by the Presidents of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.