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    "ocrText": "FORM OS-1\nTHE AMERICAN RED Cross\nRED CROSS WAR COUNCIL\nNATIONAL OFFICERS\nHENRY P. DAVISON, CHAIRMAN\nWOODROW WILSON, PRESIDENT\nJOHN D. RYAN\nROBERT w. DEFOREST, VICE-PRESIDENT\nCORNELIUS N. BLISS JR.\nJOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, TREASURER\nHARVEY D. GIBSON\nJOHN w. DAVIS, COUNSELOR\nATLANTIC DIVISION\nGEORGE B. CASE\nSTOCKTON AXSON, SECRETARY\n44 EAST 23RD STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y.\n-\n-\nTELEPHONE, GRAMERCY 5100\nEX-OFFICIO\nWILLIAM HOWARD TAFT\nWILLIAM HOWARD TAPT\nCHAIRMAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE\nETHAN ALLEN, MANAGER\nELIOT WADSWORTN\nELIOT WADSWORTH, VICE-CHAIRMAN\nALBERT w. STAUB, ASSISTANT MANAGER\nHARVEY D. GIBSON, GENERAL MANAGER\nDecember 30, 1918\nA. R.C.File\nRECENVED\nMiss Clara D. Noyes\nActing Director, Bureau of Nursing Service\nAmerican Red Cross Headquarters\nWashington, D.C.\nMy dear Miss Noyes:\nIt was a real pleasure to have a little\nvisit with you this morning over the telephone and\nI am sending this little note to make sure that I\nunderstood the various points.\nFirst of all, it seems desirable to find\nsome nurses in France who could come to this country\nfor a speaking tour to interest the public health in\nour health programme. I shall bear this in mind\n13\nand take it up with Miss Stimson as soon as I arrive.\nShe has already mentioned Miss Alice Fitzgerald for\nsimilar work and it is possible that she may be will-\ning to come home for this purpose.\nI am greatly puzzled over the fact that\nother organizations seem to be sending their per-\nsonnel to France and was a little embarrassed at\nhaving the British consul calmly transfer my al-\nlegiance to the Young Men's Christian Association.\nYou will be amused to hear that my passport was\nsent to the State Department representative here\nin New York without my knowledge or consent, and\nby them transferred to the Y .M.C.A. You can\nimagine that I lost no time in having the matter\nstraightened out, but apparently the impression\nhas gone forth that no further Red Cross personnel\nwill go to France. It seems strange when no one\nelse seems to be included in this restriction.\nI have kept a f ew of Miss Stimson's\nletters but will try and mail them on my arrival\nat Brest, after I have copied a f ew notes in the"
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