The clause in the Covenant of the League of Nations
suggesting the formation of an International Red Cross League is already in process of fulfilment. Such a League cannot be international in the true sense while Russia and Germany are outside the League of Nations, but meanwhile representatives of the Allied and Neutral nations have formed a League of Red Cross Societies, which can be easily expanded to include other nations as they ome into line. At a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel on Monday Sir Arthur Stanley, President of the British Red Cross Society, announced that the League would have its headquarters at Geneva, and would be administered by a Board of -fifteen Governors, with Mr. Henry Davison, the head of the American Mission as Chairman and Sir David Henderson as Director- GeneraL A Director of Medical Organization and a Missionary of Development will also be appointed, and technical experts will report to the Council on experiments and research. In effect, the Red Cross has always been international, and it is only obeying the logic of oircumetanae.s to make it international in organization and administration.
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