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    "ocrText": "-4-\nThe Chief Nurse was occupied much of the time in the field, and I as her\nassistant was much of the time at the headquarters of the Commission.\nOnly one who has worked in the Balkan countries after the war can appre-\nciate how difficult was transport, how difficult were the waits for supplies, how\ndifficult it was to get on working terms with the native people, even though their\ngovernments asked our service, and, lastly, how difficult were living conditions.\nAmerican Red Cross was very generous in allowing expenses for suitable\nsomething\nquarters for personnel, but there was always necessary more than quarters and food\n-\nand that was sociability and recreation among themselves - and making acquaintance\nwith the people we were serving, and those who were aiding us to serve, especially\noutside of the actual routine work.\nMr. Anderson was quick to see this and to approve a reasonable amount of\nexpense and time spent by personnel in this way. We were glad to see that, as\noccasion demanded, Mr. Anderson secured the friendship and good will of the native\npeople in authority, whose cooperation was not always automatically forthcoming.\nFrom constant work and strain he became ill in Bucharest and once during\na trip of inspection through Albania he sustained severe injury from a fall on\nshipboard while crossing Lake Scutari, but, as before, he attened to the demands\nof the Red Cross work constantly throughout illness.\nSome of the personnel were dismissed for departing too widely from the\nideals of the Service. However, the requests from governments and people of every\none of the Balkan States for the American Red Cross to continue part of the con-\nstructive work and leave some American personnel together with their present CO-\noperation with such personnel, testifies to what was accomplished by the Commission,\nand their appreciation of it.\nTo my knowledge, Mr. Anderson stayed on in the service asked of him by\nWashington much longer than he had undertaken to do, while waiting for a new\nCommissioner to relieve him.\nI shall always feel it a privilege to testify as to the excellent work"
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