International Red Cross Plaque
Details:
The Plaque is located on the facade of the Hotel Regina, in between two windows. Plaque This marble plaque, standing roughly ten feet off the ground, commemorates the founding of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent on Sunday May 5th, 1919 in the Hotel Regina. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent was founded here by the combining of the National Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan to protect human life and health. It now reaches approximately 160 million people in need each year.
Monument Text:
A L'HOTEL REGINA DIMANCHE 5 MAI 1919
Les Societes de la Croix-Rouge
des Etas-Unis, de France, de Grande-Bretagne
d'Italie et du Japon ont fonde
LA LIGUE des SOCIETES de la CROIX- ROUGE
devenue la Federation International
des Societes
de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge
English Translation
AT THE HOTEL REGINA SUNDAY 5 MAY 1919
The Societies of the Red Cross
Of The United States, Great Britain
Italy and Japan founded
THE LEAGUE of SOCIETIES of the RED CROSS
which became the International Federation
of Societies
of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
