International Committee of the Red Cross

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Travel Sarah Macnaughtan
During her travels, although she was not a trained nurse, she tended victims of atrocities in the Balkans and volunteered for the Red Cross during the Boer War.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She sailed for Antwerp early in the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Frances Billington
MFB credits Queen Mary and her attempts to mobilize women in the workforce for the passing of that sense of utter impotence which possessed [women] in the first days of the war.
Billington, Mary Frances. The Roll-Call of Serving Women: A Record of Woman’s Work for Combatants and Sufferers in the Great War. The Religious Tract Society.
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She records...
Textual Production Elizabeth De la Pasture
Though EDP appears to have stopped writing at or shortly after her second marriage, she did while living in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) edit a collection of brief memoirs. Our Days on the Gold...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
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The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production Mary Frances Billington
MFB published The Red Cross in War: Woman's Part in the Relief of Suffering, a collection of articles written for the Daily Telegraph on the contributions of women as wartime nurses and medical professionals.
Billington, Mary Frances. The Red Cross in War: Woman’s Part in the Relief of Suffering. Hodder and Stoughton.
Textual Features Mary Frances Billington
Much of this work covers the contributions of women in the fields of nursing and commodity production, although Billington also includes accounts and photographs of women police volunteers. She provides elaborate first-hand accounts of work...
Textual Features Vernon Lee
The ballet is an allegorical attack on the Vices of Civilization and the Insanities ofWar.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus.
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Its abstract characters in The Ballet of the Nations include the eternal, universal figures of Heroism, Love, Fear, Death...
Residence Karen Gershon
Four weeks after Kristallnacht, Kaethe Loewenthal (later KG ) and her sister Lise put their names down to travel the following Wednesday to England on their tightly limited visas arranged by the Red Cross .
Gershon, Karen. A Lesser Child. P. Owen.
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Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking.
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Publishing Katharine Tynan
Flower of Youth was so popular that KT 's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson , printed and sold it as a leaflet, donating the profits to the Red Cross .
Tynan, Katharine. The Years of the Shadow. Constable.
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Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis . It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion...
politics Ann Bridge
AB also wanted to help after witnessing the appalling conditions in which 90,000 refugee ex-soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army were corralled behind barbed wire on an unsheltered beach in southern France, succumbing to pneumonia...
politics Storm Jameson
In Prague, Jameson spent time with her longtime friend Jiřina Tůmová and various politicians and bureaucrats, including Edvard Benes or Beněs . Beněs was the former president of Czechoslovakia, whom Jameson came to know at...
politics Violet Trefusis
VT associated herself with women deeply involved in wartime activities, and specifically (despite her pre-war visit to Mussolini ) with anti-Nazi events. For instance, her former house-guest Hélène Terré worked for the Red Cross in...
Occupation Katharine Tynan
From Western Ireland KT wrote letters to London newspapers, entreating readers to donate money for beds at the Red Cross hospital being run at Dublin Castle. She successfully raised enough money for new beds...
Occupation Evelyn Underhill
However, her renunciation of war did not prevent her from undertaking any humanitarian effort related to war. Biographer Christopher Armstrong notes that in the years leading up to the war, both EU and her husband...

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24 June 1859: The battle of Solferino was fought: journalist...

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24 June 1859

The battle of Solferino was fought: journalist Jean Henri Dunant documented the agonies of wounded soldiers left to die on the battlefield, and set out to prevent such suffering for the future.

1862: Jean Henri Dunant published and distributed...

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1862

Jean Henri Dunant published and distributed A Memory of Solferino, which led to the birth of the Red Cross .

22 August 1864: The Geneva Convention adopted the charter...

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22 August 1864

The Geneva Convention adopted the charter of the International Red Cross .

22 August 1864: The Geneva Convention adopted the charter...

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22 August 1864

The Geneva Convention adopted the charter of the International Red Cross .

1870-1871: With the aid of Clara Barton, the International...

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1870-1871

With the aid of Clara Barton , the International Committee of the Red Cross set up hospitals during the Franco-Prussian War.

By January 1872: Gustave Moynier, an instigator of the Red...

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By January 1872

Gustave Moynier , an instigator of the Red Cross and the Geneva Convention, decided (reversing his earlier opinion) that an International Criminal Court to try war crimes was desirable.

12 October 1915: Edith Cavell, the now famous English Red...

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12 October 1915

Edith Cavell , the now famous English Red Cross nurse, was executed by firing squad.

10 December 1917: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the...

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10 December 1917

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Red Cross ; they won this prize again in 1944 and 1963.

April 1936: The League of Nations mounted an investigation...

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April 1936

The League of Nations mounted an investigation into Italy's alleged use of poison gas in its invasion of Ethiopia (violating the 1925Geneva Protocol).

1938: An International Red Cross report on Dachau,...

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1938

An International Red Cross report on Dachau , extraordinarily, praised the camp as well regulated, the regime as severe but not inhumane, and the treatment of the sick as positively kind.

14 October 1942: The International Red Cross decided against...

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14 October 1942

The International Red Cross decided against publicly announcing its evidence about Nazi death camps.

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