As in past years, the message of Mr. L. Boissier, President of the ICRC, was this year recorded by the ICRC Broadcasting and Television Service. The message is as follows :

The year which is now coming to an end has been for the Red Cross a year of getting together, one of appraisal of its unity. Indeed, the numerous events which took place in Geneva and elsewhere on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of this world wide movement fully demonstrated that all the national and international Red Cross bodies rally themselves to a small number of universal principles, universally accepted and universally applied.