Word: dunant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swiss Citizen Henri Dunant, who in 1859 witnessed the bloody battle of Solferino, Italy between the Franco-Sardinians and the Austrians, the paramount problem was to lessen the hardships of war by caring for the wounded soldier. Having seen thousands of wounded men lie on the battlefield for days in unattended agony, Dunant returned to Geneva to write his horror-filled Un souvenir de Solférino, to start a movement for an international, nonpolitical medical organization with headquarters in traditionally neutral Switzerland, with autonomous supporting units in every civilized nation. With his driving push, with the notable help...
With due respect to the President and not to detract from the noble work done by Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton; as a Freethinker, I beg to state that the Red Cross as an organization was proposed and made effective by Henri Dunant, a Swiss Freethinker. Its flag was designed by him-a red cross on a white field, which is the reversion of the flag of Switzerland...
President Hoover and TIME were talking about the American Red Cross. True it is that Jean Henri Dunant published in 1862 a booklet, Un Souvenir de Solferino, lamenting the carnage of Italy's war against Austria, urging the formation of volunteer societies to remove wounded men from battlefields, hoping all military leaders would "agree upon some sacred international principle." First to respond was President Gustave Moynier of Societe Genevoise d'UtilitéPublique, who organ- ized an international meeting at Geneva in 1863 where international Red Cross principles were formulated. Next year was held a diplomatic conference with...