In its early years the International Union for Child Welfare co-operated closely with the ICRC. Moreover, the Honorary President of the IUCW, Mrs. A. Morier, has, in a previous issue of our Review, recalled the support which Eglantyne Jebb, the founder of the Save the Children International Union, received from the ICRC in 1920.

Since then, the Union has extended internationally and today its membership is drawn from many countries. In September 1964 its General Council met in Athens and the theme discussed was: “Investment in Child Welfare—an essential factor in economic and social planning”. On that occasion, Dr. Georges Sicault presented a paper in which he recalled how the “United Nations Children's Fund” (UNICEF) was born, what its activities were and to what extent one can today actively assist the international movement in favour of child welfare. It gives us much pleasure to publish this interesting paper. (Ed.)

The International Review already mentioned last month that the ICRC has decided to prolong its medical activity at the Uqhd Hospital, as well as through its mobile medical teams. This activity continues to be considerable and the brief information given below, covering a period of several weeks, gives sufficient proof of this:

During the first fortnight of April, as a result of the departure of pilgrims to Mecca the number of patients at the Uqhd hospital declined from 50 to 44. During the same period, the polyclinic treated 792 cases of which 215 were new.

The World Veterans Federation, which held its Xlth General Assembly in Lausanne, from May 1-6, wished to express to the International Committee of the Red Cross its gratitude for the immense work accomplished on behalf of the victims of two world wars and other conflicts.

On April 28, 1965, the International Committee of the Red Cross received at its headquarters a group of some fifty Swiss Army officers headed by Brigadier Jean Schindler ; they came to take part in an introductory course on the Geneva Conventions, organized with the assistance of the ICRC.

The ICRC has just published a new series of slides on the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. The series consists of thirty pictures illustrating the main rules and prohibitions laid down in these Conventions to which practically every country in the world has adhered. The illustrations were taken from original paintings by an artist well known to the Geneva public, Edouard Elzingre.

The twentieth anniversary of the end of hostilities in 1945 gave the Red Cross a welcome opportunity to recall the activities undertaken under its flag to allay sufferings caused by the greatest cataclysm which has yet affected the human race. The International Committee of the Red Cross which is called upon to assume heavy responsibilities in case of war wishes to put on record here some aspects of its action as neutral intermediary in favour of all the victims of the world conflict.