An Israeli-sponsored amendment to the modernized draft convention for the protection of civilians in wartime providing that “as far as possible education of deserted orphaned children should be entrusted to persons of the same cultural traditions” was adopted over the week-end by the conference of Red Cross societies considering proposals for the revision of the Geneva Convention.
The conference also adopted another Israeli-sponsored amendment providing that persons retaining citizenship in former enemy nations without receiving protection from that state should not be automatically subjected to measures applying to enemy nationals. German and Austrian Jews were classified as enemy nationals by some Allied bodies at the end of the late war.
The Red Mogen Dovid will be retained as the emblem for Army and civilian medical institutions, Emile Najar, a spokesman for the Israeli Government, today told the plenary session of the Conference. The emblem will be retained, he stated, Red Crescent and Red Lion of Iran.
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