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    "ocrText": "January 6, 1930.\nMrs. E. M. Malcolm,\nPersonnel Division,\nForeign Department,\nNear East Relief,\n151 Fifth Avenue,\nNew York City.\nMy dear Mrs. Malcolm:\nYour letter of the 3lst regarding Miss Annie\nEarle Slack has been received. It is true that she is a member of\nour enrollment, and I wish that I could give her an unqualified\nrecommendation for the particular piece of work in Syria for which\nyou need a nurse director. In order to explain why I cannot give an\nunqualified recommendation I shall find it necessary to review her\nrelation to the Red Cross, etc.\nIn the first place Miss Slack while trained at\nthe New York Hospital School of Nursing was à British subject, having\nbeen born in the british West Indies. She was in aris and applied\nat the time we established our work in connection with military opera-\ntions and other activities, and filed her application for enrollment\nin our service through our small recruiting committe in that city.\nThis was in 1917. She may have taken out Citizenship Papers since\nthen. This may not be of any importance as far as your progran is\nconcerned, but \"would not be able to assign her again as we only consider\nor such appointments Citizens of the United Prior to her\nenrollment in our service she was connected with Dr. Carrollys work\nAmerican Red Cross auspices in operating room work in Jassey, Roumania.\nat Compeigne, France, and later with a special mission under the\nAfter her enrollment wish us she served with\nDr. Blake's Hospital and also in our Pervice de Sante, and later at\nMilitary Hospital No. 9. Following the Armistice as we wer. engaged\nin an extensive Child Welfare Program, on October 3, 1919, she was\nassigned by us to Albania, where she remained until May 1920. She\ndid good work and was regarded as reliable, but gave evi ences of\nbeing weak in disciplinary matters. Some difficulty arose during\nthe absence of the Chief Nurse in which she failed to take a positive\nposition, whi h would have been greatly to the advantage of our Foland work.\nUpon her return to Paris she was assigned on June 7, 1920, to\nwhere she remained until Deptember first. She had a very good report\nfrom our Chief Nurse of that territory."
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