Wien

Nachschlagewerk über das Deutsche Rote Kreuz und die Rotkreuz- und Rothalbmond-Bewegung

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  1. Following the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–1871 , the recriminations between the former belligerents were so violent that the Austrian Red Cross Society, which had invited the Third International Conference to meet in Vienna in 1871, preferred to postpone the Conference indefinitely. After ten years of trying in vain to get the Austrian Red Cross to honour its commitments, the ICRC resolved to convene the Third International Conference itself; the Conference was held in Geneva in September 1884. — François Bugnion, The International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent: challenges, key issues and achievements, in: International Review of the Red Cross, Band 91, Nr. 876, Dezember 2009, Seiten 675–712, Seite 687, Fußnote 46.