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From Lint to the Inspection of Vessels : The Amazing Development of Red Cross Tasks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Senedu Gabru
Senedu Gabru*
Affiliation:
Member of the Presidential Council of the Ethiopian Red Cross, Vice-chairman of the Board of Governors of the League
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Extract

Just as the tree obtains nourishment at its roots, so we come to draw strength and inspiration at the very source of a noble idea, where the Red Cross was born and where it has grown.

Delegates of 90 Societies, representing 157 million members, have flocked here from all parts of the world to celebrate and pay tribute to one hundred years of service and unlimited devotion to the welfare of mankind.

This commemoration is a suitable vantage-point from which to review the road which has been travelled in the course of a century by a great movement and also to look ahead in order to study the future, its prospects and its limitations.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 4 , Issue 37 , April 1964 , pp. 171 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1964

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Footnotes

1

In its number of February last, the International Review published the text of the lecture given in August 1963 by Mr. F. Siordet in the Lecture Hall of Geneva University, in the programme of public lectures organized ort the occasion of the Red Cross Centenary.

We now produce the text of Mrs. S. Gabru's lecture within the same programme. (Edit.)