Red Cross != American Red Cross
Though I did think about the national distinctions.
Of course, up here, the Red Cross occupies a special place, descended as it is from the medical brigades organised by Dr. Norman Bethune (of Toronto) during the Spanish Civil War.
That, of course, will cue Marlowe to trash the organisation due to its avowedly kom-yew-nist roots; Bethune was a noted socialist, extensively investigated by both the US and Canadian governments in the late thirties and forties for his communist sympathies, and is a national hero of Communist China for the work he did there during the Revolution, where he died of blood poisoning from a cut he received while doing an operation.
