A film on the International Red Cross

Extract

As President of the Monegasque Red Cross, Princess Grace of Monaco recently spent several days in Geneva during which she took part in a film being produced for Canadian Television. This company is in fact preparing a documentary of importance for the forthcoming World Red Cross Day, May 8,1966, on the activity of the Red Cross, in particular of the International Committee and the League of Red Cross Societies. The Princess had accepted to present and comment on the work of the two international institutions of the Red Cross. She thus divided her days between the ICRC and the League. An imposing series of “ shots ” were taken of the ICRC's Central Tracing Agency in which are classified cardindexes and archives concerning more than fifteen million prisoners of war and displaced or missing civilians during the course of armed conflicts in Europe and in the rest of the world. The Princess commented, in front of the cameras, on several cases with which the Agency had to deal and brought out the effectiveness and extent of the work carried out at ICRC headquarters on behalf of the victims of all those conflicts.