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Show March 1 Marks 62nd Red Cross Anniversary International League Membership of U. S. Dates Back to 1882 ' March 1st marks the sixty-second sixty-second anniversary of the United States entry into the "humanitarian "humanita-rian league of nations" known as the Red Cross, coincident with the opening of the $200,000,000 1944 American Red Cross War Fund campaign. Despite the sixty-two year lapse since President Chester A. Arthur signed the document that made this country a member, the purposes and responsibilities of the Red Cross remain in 1944 the same as then the alleviation of human suffering and conservation conserva-tion of life. The Red Cross was born in Switzerland in 1864 when thirty-one thirty-one nations agreed to certain wartime conditions. They covenanted cove-nanted among themselves that wounded of all armies, prisoners of war, and those engaged in medical and surgical work on the battlefields should be respected. |