Red Cross interest in the promotion of peace is well known. It is reflected once again in one of the resolutions adopted by the XX International Conference of the Red Cross in Vienna and in the Round Table meeting which took place in The Hague last year, at which a number of notabilities in the Red Cross movement expressed their views on the contribution which the Red Cross could make to peace and international understanding.

We have the honour to inform you that the International Committee of the Red Cross on 8th August 1968 officially recognized the Guyana Red Cross Society.

Famine is increasing daily in Biafra, as a result of the influx of refugees from Aba and other localities fallen into the hands of the. Federal forces. It is estimated that thousands of persons are dying every day in Biafra, especially in the numerous refugee camps where there are many cases of Kwashiorkor, a disease due to a lack of proteins and malnutrition.

Reuniting of families.—In the programme for the reuniting of families, organized and directed by the delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Egypt and Israel, three further operations took place at El Kantara. The first on July 30 concerned about 180 Palestinian families returning to Gaza and 200 Egyptian families going back to their homes in the United Arab Republic.

From September 17–21, 1968 more than thirty ICRC delegates and former delegates—some of whom had served the Red Cross during World War II—met at the International Committee's headquarters.

A second Round Table on “The Red Cross as a factor in World Peace” should have taken place in Geneva on September 9–10, 1968, following the first, held in The Hague on August 28, 1967. However, due to the conflicts and tension prevailing, and the increased work thereby engendered for some of the people invited, most considered the meeting should be postponed. Whilst concurring, the ICRC noted with pleasure that the persons invited restated their interest in the work and the need to carry it on before the XXIst International Conference of the Red Cross in Istanbul, in order to submit certain definite proposals. It has therefore been decided to convene the second Round Table for January 1969.

Taking advantage of the presence in Geneva of many National Society delegates for the 87th session of the League's Executive Committee, the International Committee arranged a conference at its headquarters. This took place on September 3 and was attended by a large audience.

In its previous issue, the International Review mentioned that 120 States were parties to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.

On September 6, 1968, Senator Guiseppe Medici, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy, met Mr. Samuel A. Gonard, President of the ICRC.

The Commission of neutral experts appointed by the International Committee of the Red Cross to examine the claims of the victims of pseudo-medical experiments practised in concentration camps under the Nazi regime, to whom the Government of the German Federal Republic is prepared to pay compensation, again met in Geneva at ICRC headquarters in August with Mr. William Lenoir, Judge of the Geneva Court of Justice, in the chair. He was assisted by Professor Pierre Magnenat, doctorassistant at the University Clinic of the Nestle1 hospital in Lausanne and Dr. Sylvain Mutrux, medical assistant director at the Bel Air University Psychiatric Clinic in Geneva. The Polish Red Cross was represented by Miss Danuta Zys and Dr. Jerzy Nowkanski and the German Red Cross in the Federal Republic of Germany by Dr. E. Goetz. Dr. Jacques F. de Rougemont, member of the ICRC, was rapporteur.