\"ICRC\" Paulette Tombet Hand Signed TLS Dated 1969 For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "ICRC" Paulette Tombet Hand Signed TLS Dated 1969. 

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The International Committee learnt

with deep regret of the death, on 15 December, after a short illness, of Miss

Paulette Y. Tombet, a member of the ICRC directorate and Director of the

Central Tracing Agency. Miss Tombet joined the ICRC staff in December 1940 as

an employee of the French section of the Central Prisoners of War Agency. In

1947 she was appointed head of the French Service secretariat, and in 1951 head

of the Hungarian Service. In 1957 she was promoted assistant head of the Agency

directorate. While carrying out these functions she assumed in 1964 the

secretariat of the ICRC Presidency and also directed the Protocol service. In

1966 she was appointed Director of the Central Tracing Agency and became a

member of the ICRC directorate in 1973. Paulette Tombet devoted thirty-six

years of her life, almost to the day, to the ICRC. Her practical intelligence,

constant dedication and untiring selfless efforts were an example to all. The

International Committee is profoundly grateful to her, and her many friends

will long remember her winning personality.