World Red Cross Day

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For the thirteenth year running, Radio-Gèneve organised the International Red Cross Broadcast, placed traditionally under the patronage of the ICRC, the League, the European Broadcasting Union and the International Radio and Television Organization. The broadcast took place on May 8 last, the anniversary of Henry Dunant's birth which is celebrated in a number of countries in memory of the founder of the Red Cross. It will be remembered that last year's programme was given by the Belgian Broadcasting corporation and included a cantata by Louis de Meester, on a poem of Karel Jonckheere's, entitled “ Here is my blood ”, which is a salute to the blood donors' gesture of human fellowship.