Mr. Jean-Louis Fort, Secretary-General, left the International Committee at the end of last year. During the four years which he devoted to the institution, Mr. Le Fort rendered outstanding service, contributing to the improvement of management methods and the quest for new financial resources. He also played a major role in the field of co-operation between the ICRC and the League, particularly in the pooling of Red Cross resources for large-scale international relief operations.

The theme underlying the new film Humanity First, produced by the ICRC, is why and how the fundamental principles of humanity, incorporated in the Geneva Conventions, should be taught. These basic rules should be made known more extensively among school children, university students and members of the armed forces.

On 30 September, twenty-five Belgian army judges and officers, accompanied by Mr. R. Vermeylen, General Administrator of the Belgian Red Cross, visited the ICRC to acquaint themselves with the work done in Geneva to ensure the dissemination of the principles of international humanitarian law. They were received by Mr. Eric Martin, President of the International Committee. They saw several films and heard statements. Finally they visited the Central Tracing Agency, and were thus afforded a quick survey of the ICRC's various present activities.

Concomitantly with its large-scale operations in 1973, the International Committee of the Red Cross continued its less extensive actions in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The few figures below give a glimpse of the tasks performed in the traditional ICRC functions of visiting places of detention, distributing relief supplies, and seeking the missing and reuniting dispersed families through its Central Tracing Agency.

The ICRC wishes to draw attention to the following corrections to be made in the Summary Report of Activities from 1969 to 1972, which it had issued for the XXIInd International Conference of the Red Cross:

On page 9, column 1, the second paragraph of the section concerning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea should read as follows:

The ICRC asked the Red Cross Society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for news about the people. In January 1970, the Society informed the ICRC that the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was prepared to release and repatriate those wishing to return to the Republic of Korea. Thus, thirty-nine passengers were released at Pan Mun Jom, on 14 February, while the others remained in North Korea.

The ICRC has just published four new colour posters. One illustrates the evacuation of serious battle casualties, one the repatriation of prisoners of war, and two the protection of the civilian population. They are available with captions in Arabic, English, French, German or Spanish, or without any caption at all.