§ 60. Mr. F. Longdenasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to General MacArthur's ban on the wearing of Red Cross uniforms in Korea, causing British, Canadian and Danish Red Cross units to retire to Tokyo, while the Danish Foreign Office is being asked to make a protest against this situation; and if he will make a similar protest, on behalf of this country, to the Unified Command.
§ Mr. Ernest DaviesFollowing a request made last November by the United Nations Organisation to the League of Red Cross Societies, a British Red Cross Society welfare team arrived in Tokyo en route to Korea. The Unified Command in Tokyo has so far refused to allow any Red Cross team to proceed to Korea unless its members wear American uniform without any Red Cross insignia, a condition which is unacceptable to the British Red Cross Society.
246WThe League of Red Cross Societies have taken the matter up with the United Nations Organisation, whose Secretariat hope for an early settlement. The British Embassy in Washington have also approached the State Department who have promised an explanation.