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program. I also took a memorandum of the reliefwork
carried out by the Swedish Red Cross under the
leadership of Prince Carl, as well as his plans for
the near future. Prince Carl referred in his
memorandum to the official offer of the Swedish Red Cross
to its Russian counterpart to assist in every way the
Russian prisoners of war in Germany, if the same
could be done for German prisoners in Russia. This
had been done during the First World War, but this
time the Russians had refused. The first step should
to exchange lists of prisoners, to forward
correspondence, and to supervise the treatment of these
prisoners. I hoped that through the International
Committee of the Red Cross I would be able to get a clear
picture of the entire prisoners of war problem. I was
especially interested in ascertaining their attitude
regarding the possiblity of Russian cooperation in
these activities. As is known, the government of the
Soviet Union has not ratified the now existing
Geneva Conventions about the treatment of prisoners
of war, and because of this, the International
Committee has not been able to establish effective contact
with the Russian authorities.
My experiences have taught me that this question
has been and is of great importance, and therefore,
I want to relate here the negotiations which took
place between the International Committee and the
Russian authorities. The information I received was
as follows:
The International Committee has always tried to
maintain unbroken relations with the Swedish Red
Cross. Before the war, the Russian Red Cross was
the national organization which had made the largest
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