Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

MARIO G. MENOCAL
In commendation of the Founder of the American Red Cross—Clara Barton, it gives me great pleasure to state that her services rendered to the cause of humanity in general and the poor starving people of Cuba in particular, during our last struggle for independence, were inestimable and her memory is linked to the history of Cuba by ties of gratitude, love and respect.
Mario G. Menocal,
The President of Cuba, 1912–1920.
See pages [82]; [100]; [234]; [241]; [354].

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While the American Navy (in 1899) was sinking the ships of Spain, the Spanish Cortes, by unanimous vote, granted Clara Barton a “Diploma,” a “Decoration,” and a “Vote of Thanks”; and following the war, a “Diploma of Gratitude.” The Author.

I am with the wounded. Clara Barton.

Cuba was a hard field, full of heart-breaking memories.

Clara Barton.

Send food, medicine—anything. Clara Barton.

It is to the Rough Riders we go, and the relief may be rough but it will be ready. Clara Barton.

At the time of the Spanish-American War, in Cuba, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt personally accepted favors at the hands of Clara Barton, as President of the Red Cross. Percy H. Epler.

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