Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad

Front Cover
J.B. Lippincott, 1915 - Red Cross and Red Crescent - 333 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 91 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 294 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Housing Amendments of 1957".
Page 288 - The present Declaration is only binding on the Contracting Powers in case of war between two or more of them. It shall cease to be binding from the time when, in a war between the Contracting Powers, one of the belligerents is Joined by a non-Contracting Power.
Page 52 - August 22, 1864) . . . to act in matters of voluntary relief and in accord with the military and naval authorities as a medium of communication between the people of the United States of America and their Army and Navy...
Page 224 - The emblem of the red cross on a white ground and the words Red Cross or Geneva Cross may only be used, whether in time of peace or war, to protect or designate sanitary formations and establishments, the personnel and materiel protected by the convention.
Page 74 - Title [RS 4501-4613], however, shall prevent the owner or consignee or master of any vessel, except vessels bound, from a port in the United States to any foreign port, other than vessels engaged in trade between the United States and the British North American possessions, or the West...
Page 292 - Cross for the purpose of soliciting, collecting, or receiving money or material ; or for any person to wear or display the sign of the Red Cross or any insignia colored in...
Page 292 - ... shall be liable to a fine of not less than one nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both, for each and every offense.
Page 288 - Out of respect to Switzerland the heraldic emblem of the red cross on a white ground, formed by the reversal of the federal colors, is continued as the emblem and distinctive sign of the sanitary service of armies.

Bibliographic information