Again, there was a hiatus: apparently it was judged impossible to convene a successful Conference in the aftermath of the Cuba crisis, but in 1965 matters had calmed down somewhat, and delegates met in Hofburg in Vienna at the beginning of October of that year.
Lady Limerick was elected to chair the “General Commission”[i], but apart from that there is not a single interesting reference to women, ladies or girls – in the present context.
At this Conference Lady Limerick was also elected to the Standing Commission[ii], which elected her Chairman[iii] at its first meeting after the Conference
[i] XXth International Conference of the Red Cross, Vienna, October 2-9 1965 : report; [Geneva : ICRC : League], 1965; P 35; P 45/134 in the electronic version at https://library.icrc.org/library/docs/DIGITAL/CI_1965_RAPPORT_ENG.pdf
[ii] XXth International Conference of the Red Cross, Vienna, October 2-9 1965 : report; [Geneva : ICRC : League], 1965; P 91; P 103/134 in the electronic version at https://library.icrc.org/library/docs/DIGITAL/CI_1965_RAPPORT_ENG.pdf
[iii] https://standcom.ch/biographies-of-current-and-previous-standing-commission-members/
