The August issue of the International Review has already mentioned the action undertaken by the ICRC in connection with the Geneva Protocol of June 17, 1925, and with reference to the war in Vietnam. This Protocol forbids the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and of bacteriological methods of warfare. A reminder of the provisions may not be amiss.

Thanks to donations received from various quarters, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been able to acquire a mobile X-ray unit driven by dry batteries.

On January 26, 1967, the ICRC inaugurated a new recording studio at its headquarters in Geneva. Mr. G. Bordier, Vice-President of the institution, welcomed a number of guests of whom we would mention Mr. J. P. Meroz, Director of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's French language network ; Mr. R. Aubert, Director of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation's Geneva studio; Mr. Beer, Secretary-General of the League: Mr. Abut and Mr. Dabney, Assistant-Secretaries General ; various members of the ICRC's directorate ; as well as Red Cross delegates in Geneva for the Conference of European National Society Information Service Officers.

In February 1966, Mrs. Frieda N., resident in Djamboul, USSR, requested the Central Tracing Agency at ICRC headquarters in Geneva to undertake an investigation to trace her mother, Mrs. Lydia M., née P. and her two sisters Lydia W. M. and Rosa W. M. born in 1926 and 1928 respectively. Frieda N. had been without news of her relatives since the Second World War. They had lived in North Crimea and were deported, to German.

A series of six test broadcasts were recorded in the ICRC studios in 1966 and sent out on the short-wave band by the Schwarzenburg transmitter. We would add that the Radiocommunications Service during the past year studied 1,550 listeners' reports sent by 760 correspondents from 36 countries, and 61 tape recordings also sent by correspondents.

Due to the events affecting the civilian population in the Yemen, and as certain press and radio circles have ascribed to ICRC delegates in the Sear East statements which they have never made, and which were quite unfounded, the ICRC launched the following appeal on January 30, 1967.

Dissemination of knowledge of the Geneva Conventions is not merely a long-term task—it is a permanent one. One age group succeeds another ; generation succeeds generation ; the students become teachers and forgotten lessons of the past fade into the background of a past which is itself forgotten.