International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997): Volume 4 -

Gift from the Swiss Confederation on the occasion of the Red Cross Centenary
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13 January 2010, pp. 34-35
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The International Committee of the Red Cross learnt with satisfaction and gratitude of the unanimous decision of both Chambers of the Federal Parliament to grant it the sum of 8.8 million Swiss francs for the construction of a building to house the Central Tracing Agency and the Henry Dunant Institute, the latter to be run jointly by the League of Red Cross Societies and the Swiss Red Cross.

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13 January 2010, pp. 435-438
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Contributions made or promised as a result of the appeal launched by the League of Red Cross Societies in agreement with the Laotian Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross, in favour of the victims of the conflict in Laos have now reached a total of the equivalent of 100,000 Swiss francs. A little more then one third of this amount consists of contributions in kind, the remainder being cash donations.

From June to December 1963: more than six thousand visitors!
V. Y.
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13 January 2010, pp. 36-38
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For some time past a considerable number of visitors from countries near and far have been coming to the headquarters of the ICRC. In 1963, in this year of celebration of the institution's Centenary, their numbers were to increase from June onwards to reach a figure of 4338 during the period July 15 to September 15. The number of visitors between June and December reached a total of over six thousand, to whom should be added delegates to the Congress (400 persons).

† Léon Bossard Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross
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13 January 2010, pp. 438-439
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The International Committee felt much grief over the death in Auckland on July 10, 1964 of Mr. Léon Bossard, its delegate in New Zealand for a number of years.

International Review of the Red Cross