The ICRC, the League and the Report on the re-appraisal of the role of the Red Cross (V): Information in the Red Cross

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The Tansley Report gives the following comments under the heading The concept of International Red Cross:

Members of Red Cross have an ambivalent approach to the concept ot and use of the term “International Red Cross”. On some occasions greaf effort is expended to enhance the idea of one Red Cross, of Red Cross moving as a unity, of acting in the name of the International Red Cross. On other occasions equal pains are taken to distinguish between, say, the League and the ICRC, or the ICRC and individual National Societies, and to accentuate the differences in purposes and structure of the various Red Cross organs. Which approach is adopted at any given time seems dependent upon what serves the best immediate need of the Red Cross organ involved…