^{page 131 note 1} The post-war aid programmes in Soviet Russia were carried out with the cooperation of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, High Commissioner of the League of Nations.

^{page 132 note 1} Three distinctive emblems of the medical services of the armed forces are recognized and protected by the Geneva Conventions. They are the red cross, the red crescent and the red lion and sun on a white ground, which are also the emblems of the National Societies.

The red crescent is the emblem used in a large number of Islamic countries. It is displayed together with the red cross in the emblem of the Alliance of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of the U.S.S.R.

The sign of the red lion and sun was used by Iran until July 1980, when it was discarded and the Islamic Republic of Iran notified its decision that it would use the sign of the red crescent as the distinctive emblem of its Army Medical Services and of its National Society.

^{page 133 note 1} The supreme deliberative body of the International Red Cross is the International Red Cross Conference. The International Conference is composed of delegations of duly recognized National Red Cross, Red Crescent and Red Lion and Sun Societies, delegations of States parties to the Geneva Conventions and delegations of the ICRC and of the League.

The International Red Cross Conference normally meets every four years. During the interval between sessions of the Conference, the Standing Commission, comprising five members elected by the International Conference, two representatives of the ICRC and two representatives of the League, ensures the co-ordination of the International Red Cross bodies and makes the arrangements for the next International Conference.

^{page 133 note 2} The Centre de documentation, was dissolved in 1938, and the Commission internationale de standardisation ceased to exist after the Second World War.

^{page 134 note 1} The Hague Convention of 18 October 1907, for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention of 6 July 1906 (Convention No. X).

^{page 134 note 2} In certain isolated cases where a rebel movement had seized possession of a territory which was no longer under the control of a mandatory Power (for example, during the war in the Moroccan Rif or the Djebel-Druze rebellion) the ICRC had offered its services in 1925 and had tried to send a mission to the areas concerned.

^{page 145 note 1} In 1972, the ICRC and the League, in co-operation with the National Societies, decided to entrust a group of specialists with a critical study of the activities, structures and methods of the national and international bodies which form the Red Cross, and to educe guidelines for them. The conclusions of that study were issued in a set of papers, published under the direction of MrTansley, Donald D.: Re-appraisal of the Role of the Red Cross. An Agenda for Red Cross. Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva, 1975.Google Scholar

^{page 146 note 1} Published under the title: The ICRC, the League and the Report on the Reappraisal of the Role of the Red Cross, Geneva 1979.

^{page 149 note 1} At each of the sessions, over a hundred States were represented. Furthermore, national liberation movements recognized by the regional inter-governmental organizations concerned were invited to participate in the deliberations of the Conferences, though without having the right to vote.