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    "ocrText": "August 7, 1929\nMiss Alice Fitzgerald\n95 Via Masaccio\nFlorence, Italy\nMy dear Miss Fitzgerald\nYour cable asking if the I. C. N. position was available\nwas received yesterday just as I was starting off for an automobile\ntrip to Warrenton, Va. taking with me one of the foreign nurses, now\nvisiting in this city.\nI decided to write instead of cabling, although I realize\nthat this delay may slightly inconvience you. I do not know what to say\nabout the I. C. N. position. It is being allowed, but the question is,\nthe salary. Miss Reimann is now in Cuba and will not be back to Geneva\nfor some time longer, although I doubt if she stays in Cuba very long.\nI know she will be anxious to get back to Geneva with as little delay as\npossible, in order to catch up with the work and get the situation in hand\nfollowing the Convention.\nI should feel very badly to have you tied up with something\nelse, providing the position were open. However, I doubt if we can do\nanything about it for some months, perhaps longer. We voted to increase\nthe dues to eight cents instead of five, in order to give us revenues suffic-\niently large to cover the work at National Headquarters without any expan-\nsion. It will be a year probably before this increase in dues becomes effec-\ntive. In the meantime each association is expected to return to their homes\nand make an effort to raise enough money to carry on during the interval.\nI know what this will mean. The United States and Canada will bear the brunt\nof the situation.\nI am sorry that I cannot take time this morning to tell you\nabout the Congress. It was most interesting. If you see Miss Turner\nor Dr. Roatta, they can give you a birdseye picture of the situation and also\ntell you that the new Fascist Association was not accepted. Neither did we\nap oint an associate national representative from Italy. It seemed so difficult\nto make a choice. If we accepted someone persona grata with the Red Cross\nit might annoy the Fascist group and vice versa."
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