International Red Aid

Using Canadian funds, he could create mobile medical units specializing in bringing blood transfusions to the wounded within a 25-mile radius.

For this, he eventually gained the support of skeptical doctors with the communist-backed Socorro Rojo Internacional, SRI.

which looked after the wounded, the orphans, and the widows.

He wired home to the committee to aid Spanish democracy, requesting enough money to bring a station wagon and fit it out.