Red Cross and League The sustained refusal of the International
Red Cross Committee at Geneva to give the League of Nations access to information in its possession regarding attacks on the Red Cross in Abyssinia raises questions which must be taken up vigorously by national Red Cross organisations in different countries. The so-called Inter- national Committee, it is stated, consists solely of Swiss citizens and renews its personnel by co-option. That is an astonishing anomaly in itself. This body now withholds information from a League of Nations anxious to protect the Red Cross, on the ground that the League is a political organisation, and has taken up a political attitude by imposing sanctions on Italy. If the attempt to substitute law for force is alien to the ideas of the International Red Cross Committee, so much the worse for the Committee. But the matter comes nearer home than that. If the national Red Cross organisations, which the International Committee professes to represent, do not protest sharply and with effect against the action of M. Max Huber and his colleagues they will rightly share the discredit attaching to it.
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