The American Red Cross in the Great War, 46. köide;704. köideMacmillan, 1919 - 303 pages |
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Page 259 - The Council may include as part of the expenses of the Secretariat the expenses of any bureau or commission which is placed under the direction of the League.
Page 144 - Yser. One could talk from one side to the other without raising one's voice, and the birds could fly over it with one sweep of their wings. And on the two banks there were millions of men, the one turned toward the other, eye to eye. But the distance which separated them was greater than the stars In the sky; it was the distance which separates right from injustice. The ocean is so vast that the sea gulls do not dare to cross it.
Page 144 - It was only a little river, almost a brook; it was called the Yser. One could talk from one side to the other without raising one's voice, and the birds could fly over it with one sweep of their wings. And on the two banks there were millions of men, the one turned toward the other, eye to eye. But the distance which separated them was greater than that of the stars in the sky; it was the distance which separates right from injustice.
Page 261 - To promote the welfare of mankind by furnishing a medium for bringing within the reach of all peoples the benefits to be derived from present known facts and new contributions to science and medical knowledge and their application. 3. To furnish a medium for co-ordinating relief work in case of great national or international calamities.
Page 262 - We are confident that this movement, assured as it is at the outset of the moral support of civilization, has in it great possibilities of adding immeasurably to the happiness and welfare of mankind.
Page 261 - Association, is : 1. To encourage and promote in every country in the world the establishment and development of a duly authorized voluntary national Red Cross organization, having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease, and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world, and to secure the co-operation of such organizations for these purposes.
Page 4 - It is for you to decide whether the most prosperous nation in the world will allow its national relief organization to keep up its worker withdraw from a field where there exists the greatest need ever recorded in history.
Page 111 - You must put in contact with these men in the hospitals in Europe, men who are missionaries, men who have been through the mill and have come out on top, who know what is being done and what can be done. You must kill the idea of helplessness almost as soon as it is born; in a few weeks it becomes very strong. You must show moving pictures of men who are crippled enjoying themselves in normal ways, dancing, skating, paddling a canoe, swimming, playing billiards, rolling cigarettes, and hundreds of...
Page 261 - The conception involves not merely efforts to relieve human suffering, but to prevent it: not alone the suffering of one people, but an attempt to arouse all peoples to a sense of their responsibility for the welfare of their fellow beings throughout the world.
Page 262 - This world-wide prevalence of disease and suffering is in considerable measure due to causes which science has not yet disclosed, but a great part of it is due to widespread ignorance and lack of application of well-established facts and methods capable either of largely restricting disease or of preventing it altogether.