The International Committee has just produced a booklet entitled Rights and Duties of Nurses, as defined by the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.

The basic idea of this publication is a simple one: to collect in a single work of modest size, and easy to read, the essential provisions of the four 1949 Conventions relative to the medical services and medical personnel. Apart from specialized knowledge, a thorough grounding in the principles and the spirit itself of these Conventions is to be found. It should be added that this brochure, of some fifty pages, is published in French, English, Spanish and German and can be obtained from the ICRC in Geneva at a cost of Sw. fr. 1.50 a copy.