The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorised voluntary national Red Cross organisations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.
The Covenant of the League of Nations (1919), The Paris Peace Conference (Allied and Associated Powers). A treaty text published in 1919 with no individual author, so in the public domain in the United States by age. Provenance and rights.