ABSTRACT
The United Nations continued to send instructions through the US Government to a committee made up of representatives of the Defense Department, the State Department, and the Economic Co-operation Agency, which passed these directives through the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the commander-in-chief, United Nations Command. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which is a Swiss organization under the Geneva Conventions, is responsible for seeing about the welfare of prisoners-of-war and also about the welfare of the civilian population in occupied countries. The United Nations had issued very detailed instructions to us that any relief in Korea for the assistance of the Republic of Korea, and for relief in the area north of the thirty-eighth parallel when people occupied it, was to be a United Nations responsibility. The national Red Cross societies, which had responded to the invitation of the United Nations to their governments, had furnished personnel and supplies; they maintained that they had responsibility.
