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    "ocrText": "Florence January 3.1929\nIf\nRose\nPlease\nDear Miss Noyes;\nbe\ndone\nI have not written to you before about the\nItalian situation because it is so complicated, and with such\na distance bewtween us, and no chance of meeting in the near\nfuture, there is always a danger of not conveying in a letter\njust what is in the writer's mind. Now however, since receiving\nfrom Miss Reimann copies of letters she has written and XIX\nof paragraphs from some received,I feel that I must let you\nknow my point of view. ,Though my opinion is given quite unoffi-\ncially and will carry little if any weight, still I would like\nyou to know that I feel very much as Miss Reimann does about\nit all, that I approve of the way that she has handled a very\ndifficult situation and XXXXIthink that both Miss Gage and\nMiss Gunn's letters de not show the proper whole hearted con-\nfidence in a very longosuffering and hard working Secretary.\nThe only pant with which I am familiar where\naction has been taken directly and not through Miss Reimann,\nthough there may be others, the now famous \"Reatta case\".\nI cannot conceive, for instance, that any member of the League\nof Nations would ever make a move except through the Secretary\nSir Eric Drummend. I believe the same to be true of the L.O.R.C.S.\nI was abseltely astounded, not merely astenished, when I heard\nthat Dr Reatta had been invited with all expreses paid, go\nto Montreal.I still fail to see any justification for this\nchoice as he is not connected with a hospital, a school\nof nursing, and is not on record as having done anything for\nthe profession until lately andbhis part has consisted in\nadvising Miss Reimann, wisely I am sure, but that is all,\nHe is not an outstanding personality and cannot be said to\nrepresent any one group of workers in the health field.If,\nfurthermore, he fails to beymade an official delegate of the\ngovernmentbor of the newly formed (government) association of\nnurses, he cannot be said to represent Italy.\nI have nothing against Dr Roatta personally,\nbut I can see Miss Reimann's XXXXXXXXXX difficulties vis a\nvis the nurses of Italy. of course I see that the invitation\nhas now been accepted and that Dr Roatta will be in Montreal\nbut the final settling of the local situation is still pending ,\nand supposing you had to turn down Italy, what would be done\nwith the representative of this country?It seems as if the\nwhole thing had been hurried quite unnecessarily and it would\nhave been better to wait for development which must come in\nthe near future, and to have worked only through the Secretary\nwhose hand is on the pubse of the \"patient\" and whose knowledge\nof the European situation must be accepted as the best available."
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