ABSTRACT
As G. moynier watched the growth of Red Cross societies around the world, he gradually realized how wrong he had been to assume that the Red Cross would easily achieve success in any country acquainted with Christian philanthropic ideas. Sanitary Commission during the American Civil War, Moynier had assumed that a disposition toward benevolence would be the principal key to the growth of the Red Cross in any country. Planning for the exigencies of war was so complete that the Japanese decided in advance to refuse all offers of voluntary aid from abroad, including those from foreign Red Cross societies, unless they were gifts of money or materiel. Once the United States entered the war and national fund-raising drives were organized, Red Cross patriotism reached a fever pitch. The significance of the Nagler case goes beyond the obvious dimensions of war hysteria and superpatriotism.
