Death of Mr. Martin Bodmer, Honorary Member of the ICRC

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In our January issue we announced Mr. Martin Bodmer's resignation from the ICRC, of which he had been a member since 1940, and his election to honorary membership. Now we have regretfully to inform our readers of Mr. Bodmer's death on 22 March 1971. We have already summarized Mr. Bodmer's important work for the Committee over many years. During the funeral, Mr. M. A. Naville, ICRC President, delivered an address; the extracts which are quoted below express better than any other comment the significance of this loss for the International Committee:

The International Committee of the Red Cross also is in mourning. With Martin Bodmer's death it loses a companion of thirty years' standing, a colleague and a friend who, throughout that long period, ceaselessly offered the institution the resources of his culture, loyalty and goodwill and who always assumed his share of the Committee's responsibilities.