We have pleasure in publishing the text of the lecture which Mr. F. Siordet, member of the ICRC and President of the Centenary Commission of the Red Cross in Switzerland, gave in August 1963 at the University of Geneva. During the next few months two further talks will appear, one by Mrs. S. Gabru, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the League, and a member of the Ethiopian Red Cross, and the other by Mrs. G. Pecson, Chairman of the Philippine Red Cross—relating to the Red Cross, its tasks and principles. One should here briefly recall in what circumstances these lectures took place.

The International Review has already published several accounts of tasks undertaken in the Yemen by the ICRC. The following information concerns the hospital which has been set up in the desert.

By reason of the events in Cyprus, the International Committee of the Red Cross offered its services, according to its traditional rôle, to the Cyprus Government. This offer having been enthusiastically received, the ICRC delegated Mr. J. Ruff, who left Geneva for Nicosia, where he arrived on January 1.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has recently suffered a severe shock in the loss of Jean-Pierre Schoenholzer, who died suddenly in Cyprus on January 22, 1964. He had arrived a few days previously to carry out a mission on behalf of the victims of recent events.

551. — Jean S. Pictet. La doctrine de la Croix-Rouge. — 1962. In-8, 18 p., Fr. 1.50.