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	The Red Cross

Socratoad

5-21-2008 4:42 PM

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Socratoad says:

I have always wondered about the history of this organization.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a43bfcb3-d124-4757-8ecb-0a76b5aaa318/C646AFE1-554F-4369-80D4-2B27560EAD84/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1963/red-cross-history.html" href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1963/red-cross-history.html" style="font-size: 11px;">nobelprize.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1963/red-cross-history.html"><H2>International Committee of the Red Cross </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1963/red-cross-history.html"><DIV>
  In February of 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland, the
  <I>Société genevoise d'utilité publique</I>
  [Geneva Public Welfare Society] set up a committee of five Swiss
  citizens to look into the ideas offered by Henri Dunant in his
  book <I>Un Souvenir de Solferino</I> - ideas dealing with
  protection of the sick and wounded during combat. The committee
  had as its members: Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787-1875), a general
  of the Swiss army and a writer of military tracts who became the
  committee's president for its first year and its honorary
  president thereafter; Gustave Moynier (1826-1910), a young lawyer
  and president of the sponsoring Public Welfare Society, who from
  this time on devoted his life to Red Cross work; Louis Appia
  (1818-1898) and Theodore Maunoir (1806-1869), both medical
  doctors; and Henri Dunant himself.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C646AFE1-554F-4369-80D4-2B27560EAD84/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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