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Max Huber

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Paul Guggenheim
Paul Guggenheim*
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Professor at the University of Geneva and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies
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Abstract

At the time of Max Huber's death, the Revue internationale paid a succession of moving tributes to someone who had given so much of himself to the Red Cross cause. His work as a thinker, jurist and man of action, first as a member, then as President and Honorary President of the ICRC, has been evoked. Reference will also shortly be made to this when we publish other contributions concerning personalities belonging to our movement.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , July 1961 , pp. 179 - 199
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1961

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page 190 note 1 The recognition of neutrality as “international obligations for the maintenance of peace” mentioned in article 435 of the Peace Treaty of Versailles as well as the Resolution of the Council of the League of Nations of February 13, 1920 was probably formulated by Huber. See Wartenweiler, where mentioned, p. 118.Google Scholar

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