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In the service of the Red Cross

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

Two events of current interest give us cause to ponder on the significance of service to the Red Cross, the Red Crescent and the Red Lion and Sun. The first is the adoption by the twenty-third International Red Cross Conference, which met recently in Bucharest, of a resolution on the “Mission of the Red Cross”; the other is the commemoration this year of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Henry Dunant's birth. On this 8th of May, however, World Red Cross Day will not only be devoted as in the past to the memory of Dunant, but also to the activities throughout the world of the voluntary workers in the institution which he founded, and their work for the promotion of peace. The resolution in question underlines the “extreme importance” of the work carried out by National Societies “in the encouragement of social responsibility and voluntary service among their members”.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1978

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page 75 note 1 In 1758, long before the Red Cross was born, Samuel Johnson, the English essayist, wrote these prophetic words: “That charity is best of which the consequences are most extensive: the relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection, to soften the acrimony of adverse nations, and dispose them to peace and amity”.