Appeal By the International Red Cross to the Second Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly Devoted to Disarmament

On the eve of the Second Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly which will be devoted to disarmament, the Presidents of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross, of the International Committee of the Red Cross and of the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, consider it their duty to express the growing concern of the world Red Cross movement over the unprecedented escalation of the nuclear and conventional arms race. The following appeal expresses the spirit which has inspired the International Red Cross Movement throughout the 120 years of its humanitarian activities for mankind over which there looms today the threat of a catastrophe liable to dwarf any disaster recorded in human history.