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The Flame of Charity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1969

Paul-Emile Schazmann
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Anything concerning Henry Dunant is of interest to members of the Red Cross. We are therefore particularly grateful to Mr. Paul-Emile Schazmann, for many years conservator of manuscripts at the Swiss National Library, for having made available, for the centenary issue of our Review, unpublished writings by Dunant on facts which have so far received no attention. (Ed.)

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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 9 , Issue 103 , October 1969 , pp. 571 - 582
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1969

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page 572 note 1 Fifteen long letters, one accompanied by a draft for a Swiss League of Human Rights, written by Durant to Emil Jordy, were acquired in 1938 by the Swiss National Library. As the Conservator of that Library's manuscripts, I have had them put on display and I showed them to Mr. Thorès Bodet, UNESCO Director-General and to his successor Mr. Luther Evans.

page 572 note 2 Cf. Journal de Genève, 9 05 1898 Google Scholar, which devotes a front page article to Dr. Jordy's activity.

page 572 note 3 Ein Gleichnis wird zur Thatsache, Berne 1895.Google Scholar

page 577 note 1 These extracts of Dunants' manuscripts were originally in French of which we now give the English translation.

page 580 note 1 Cf. my articles: Henry Dunant und die Menschenrechte in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22. 09 1968 Google Scholar; Droits de l'homme, un inédit d'Henry Dunant in Journal de Genève, 5 10 1968 Google Scholar; Une évolution historique rattache la Suisse à la déclaration des droits de l'homme de l'ONU, in L'Ecole bernoise, Berne, 12 1954 and 01 1955 Google Scholar. These give many facts on human rights in Switzerland and mention that Dunant himself drafted a project for a Ligue suisse des droits humains a manuscript of which is in the Swiss National Library.

page 582 note 1 The letter of 25 January 1902 stipulated the shape of the red cross at the same time as it revealed Dunant's respect for the Geneva Committee's Honorary President: “Take care that the cross is a Greek cross (5 equal squares) and not like the new Federal Cross, as General Dufour, who is sufficient authority I presume, had decided as General in Chief of the Confederation and in agreement with all Federal authorities that the Swiss Cross would be “a white Greek cross against a background of Gules.”