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    "ocrText": "-2-\nbut she seemed very disinclined to do so. I reported the situa-\ntion to the Red Cross Headquarters and continued my search for\nnurses. I am told that Headquarters tried to get Miss Welch\nby telephone and telegraph that night without success. I am\nalso told that Miss Lewis got Miss Welch next morning on the\ntelephone but simply sought to have her refusal to help the\nsoldiers vindicated. That night two of the soldiers died and\nthe other two soon afterward. During the following week our\nemergency continued and was only met by employing nurses who\nworked both day and night. Our need of nurses was kept con-\nstantly before the public in the daily papers.\nMy point is that Miss Lewis showed no concern over\nsoldiers dying within reach of her help. She made no real\nattempt to be released but rather presented the case to Miss\nWelch in such a way as to elicit her approval of her refusal,\nAs Mr. Oxley said later \"If we had really known your situation\nof course we would have told her to go\", which showed that Miss\nLewis had never presented the situation in its true light, nor\ndid the continued emergency move her to make another effort to\nbe released. Her attitude was not one of regretful obedience\nbut of apparent unconcern. I have failed to find any evidence\nthat she begged to be released as any right spirited Red Cross\nnurse would have done.\nNor can I hold Miss Welch from blame, First because\nshe defended Miss Lewis in obeying the letter rather than the\nspirit of her Red Cross promise, Second because she still up-\nholds Miss Lewis altho she now knows Miss Lewis was more intent"
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