The question of setting up effective sanctions to prevent the recurrence of concentration camps genocide and mass deportations will be one of the top items on the agenda of the International Red Cross conferences which will meet here Aug. 20, it was reported today. A proposal to outlaw the Nazi brutalitities of the last war will be considered.
A three-member delegation from Israel, representing the Red Mogen David, will concern itself with the Jewish state’s future relationship with the international relief body. Five hundred delegates representing 55 countries will participate in the parley, in which U.N. Palestine mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, who heads the Swedish Red Cross, is expected to participate. He will probably preside at the sessions.
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