Reds in the Red Cross

The Russians, trailing seven of their satellites behind them, trooped into Toronto last week to sit with 63 other nations in the deliberations of the International Red Cross, which they have been denouncing for months as the tool of the imperialists and the bloodthirsty brokers of Wall Street.

Swaddled in national flags, the lobby of Toronto's Royal York Hotel exuded international amity. But the mood was marred as soon as General Nikolai Slavin barged in at the head of the Soviet delegation and asked belligerently why the Russian flag was not displayed. It was there, but the Russians had missed it. He brushed newsmen aside.

Russia, Red China, North Korea, Poland, Rumania. Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia had come not to praise the International Red Cross, but to divide it. Peking's delegation took the lead with a gross but expected attack on the U.S. Said Peking's "report" to the Red Cross: ". . . the germ warfare started by the American Government has failed to achieve its purpose."

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