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Russian authorities is rendered impossible since they
` appear to have a deeply rooted aversion to answering
letters. This at least has been my experience.
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From the end of the summer and the autumn of
1946 I have memories of Germany, France and
Sweden. On Swedish initiative, the Junior Red Cross held
an International Congress in Stockholm in which
Soviet Russia, to our great pleasure, participated.
This congress was characterized by a very congenial
atmosphere. About thirty nations were represented,
„ and the congress gave us good reason to expect that
international collaboration between the various Red
Cross organizations could be maintained and perhaps
even strengthened. :
In November of the same year I was in Paris,
where the Executive Committee of the League was
meeting. Important questions were on the agenda. I
was very interested in the fact that a Russian
delegation had arrived at the conference. I requested a
private interview with the Chairman of the Russian
Red Cross in order to find out what possibilities
existed for more intimate contact between his
organization and the Swedish Red Cross. The fact was
that the Swedish Red Cross had already, in the end
of 1945, written to the Russian Red Cross to inform
them that we were prepared to give relief to the
Russian people who had suffered so incredibly during
the war. We asked, through the Russian minister in
Stockholm and through the Swedish minister in
Moscow, how a Swedish contribution could be made,
as naturally our understanding of the situation in
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