It was with a feeling of exitement that, one day in February 1959, I complied with the request of the Leader of Education at the National Prison—Botsfengselet—in Oslo to make a speech on the Red Cross, accompanied by a film and followed by a question-hour, in connection with a course in social science for the prisoners.

I started by telling the audience that the Founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, as a young man visited the prison in Geneva, where he read aloud to the prisoners and brought them human contact.

In its Circular No. 463 of August 23, 1966, the International Committee of the Red Cross had the honour to invite the Central Committees of National Societies to send in the names of nurses and voluntary aids whom they judged qualified to receive the Florence Nightingale Medal. This invitation, which quoted Article 1 of the Regulations, was accompanied by questionnaires bearing various headings for the candidatures.

The delegates of the ICRC in South Vietnam continued their visits in February and March to prisoner of war camps in which the authorities of the Republic of Vietnam have interned combatants captured under arms. They also had access to several screening centres in American and South Korean hands.

The International Review, in April 1965, brought to the notice of its readers the training course which the ICRC had organized for people prepared to offer their services, particularly for missions abroad. A second course took place from April 3 to 7, 1967, at the International, Committee headquarters. This was attended by some forty people, including several young girls.

The ICRC has just published, in a sixty page volume entitled The Principles of International Humanitarian Law, the articles written by Mr. Jean Pictet, Director-General of the ICRC. These articles featured recently in consecutive issues of the International Review.

South-West of the huge desert waste stretching further than the eye can see lies a region where a barrier of mountains and immense rocks forms the horizon; this is the Yemen where the ICRC, three years ago, decided to bring relief to the prisoners taken in combat and to the military and civilian wounded and sick.