PROMPT RELIEF
FOR VICTIMS OF DISASTER
A RED CROSS PROPOSAL.
PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIQHT.) (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEAF.AND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 25th August. The Council 1 of the League of Nations at its next meeting, will-discuss a scheme submitted by_ the Italian Red Cross Society, for an iiiternational organisiAi'on to assist in relieving people overcome by disaster. The idea at the basis of the proposal is that of inter-Governmental co-oper^tiori on an insurance basis. It envisages a contribution by Governments of money in.advance.to be usod through various Red Cross societies for giving relief in any important disaster within the territory of a participating Government. Emphasis is -.{.aid upon the promptitude of relief rather than its scale.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 49, 27 August 1923, Page 7
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