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Preliminary Inventory to the League of Red Cross Societies Miscellaneous records, 1919-1922

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Preliminary Inventory to the 28017 1 League of Red Cross Societies Miscellaneous records, 1919-1922 Preliminary Inventory to the League of Red Cross Societies Miscellaneous Records, 1919-1922

Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California Contact Information Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-6010 Phone: (650) 723-3563 Fax: (650) 725-3445 Email: [email protected] Processed by: The Hoover Institution staff Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou © 2000 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary Title: League of Red Cross Societies Miscellaneous records, Date (inclusive): 1919-1922 Collection number: 28017 Creator: League of Red Cross Societies Collection Size: 2 manuscript boxes(0.8 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 Abstract: Correspondence, telegrams, reports, and minutes of meetings, relating to the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies and to relief operations in Europe. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Language: English. Access Collection open for research. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], League of Red Cross Societies Miscellaneous records, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1928. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Allen, R. F., Major - ARC Aide to Deputy Commissioner to Europe Apson, Stockton - Acting Secretary General LORCS Atkins, Alfred - Chief Accountant LORCS Balfour. M. C. - Public Health LORCS Bartlett, E. O., Col. - ARC Commissioner for

Preliminary Inventory to the 28017 2 League of Red Cross Societies Miscellaneous records, 1919-1922 Bicknell, Ernest P., Col. - ARC Deputy Commissioner for Europe, 1921 Brown, Donald W. - Director of Organization LORCS Bryson, Lyman, Maj. - ARC Acting Director, Junior Red Cross, LORCS Centanini - ICRC, Public Information, Xth International Red Cross Conference Clarke, Walter - Chief Division of Popular Health Instruction Cutler, Otis H. - Acting Chairman LORCS (for Davison) Davison, Henry P. - Chairman Bd. of of. LORCS Drummond, Eric - Secty. Gen. League of Nations Emerick, J. P., Capt. - LORCS (Finances) Emerson, Kendall, Dr. - ARC Deputy Commissioner to Europe Farrand, Livingston, Dr. - Chairman, Executive Committee, ARC Fitzgerald, Alice - Director, Nursing Dept., LORCS Henderson, David, Sir, Lt. Gen. - Director, LORCS Hill, A. R. - Vice Chairman, Executive Committee, ARC Hill, Dr. A. Ross - Vice Chairman Central Committee in charge of Foreign Operations, ARC Hill, Sir Claude - Acting Director-General, LORCS Keppel, F. F. - Director Foreign Operations Kittredge, T. B. Knox, Dr. J. H. M., Jr. - Medical Director, ARC Lakeman, Curtis E. - Assistant to ARC, Commissioner for Europe Mills, Nelson - Major Director Foreign Accounts, ARC Olds, Colonel Robert E. - ARC Commissioner to Europe, 1919 Persons, W. Frank - Vice-Chairman; 1. Director of Administration, LORCS, 1919; 2. Executive Committee, ARC - Director of Development, LORCS Rappard, Wm. E., Dr. - LORCS Secretary General Rockwell, Foster - Business Manager, LORCS Ryan, Edward W., Dr. - ARC Commissioner, Western Russia Saulter, Ernest - Vice President, ICRC Seidemann, H. P., Maj. - ARC Deputy Comptroller, Foreign Accounts Sand, Rene, Dr. - Secretary General, LORCS, 1922 Stouch, C. P. - Secretary to H. P. Davison Strong, R. P., Col. - General Medical Diretor, LORCS Walling, W. G. - Vice-Chairman, ARC Stanley, Arthur, Sir - Chairman, Access Points International relief. World War, 1914-1918. World War, 1914-1918--Civilian relief.

Box 1., Folder 1 Advisory Committee Letters Davison to Bohney, 1921 August 30 (Death of Sir David Henderson; appointment of Sir Claude Hill and an Advisory Committee) Davison to Bicknell, 1921 August 30 (Advisory Committee) Bicknell to Farrand, 1921 September 22 (Bicknell's appointment as ARC representative to Advisory Committee) Bicknell to Sand, 1921 September 22 (same) Bicknell to Sir Claude Hill, 1921 September 23 Sautter to Sir Claude Hill, 1921 September 27 (LORCS headquarters)

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Sir Claude Hill to Stanley, Farrand, Catier 1921 October 12 (Conference in Washington, D.C.) 1921 October 13 (Notes for Advisory Committee; proposed budget) 1921 October 13 (Notes pour le Comite Conseil, French translation of the above note) 1921 October 14 (Report on the results of preliminary inquires as to moving the headquarters of the LORCS) Sir Claude Hill to Ador (LORCS headquarters) Sir Claude Hill to Cheneviere, 1921 September 24 (LORCS headquarters) Folder 2 Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Cables Henderson to Davison, 1919 June 14 Farrand to Davison, 1919 June 16 Farand to Davison, 1919 June 30 Morris to Davison, 1919 September 26 (Promotion of Sir David Henderson) Letter - Walling to Olds, 1919 October 8 (Relationship of ARC to LORCS) Cables Bicknell to Farrand, 1919 October 21 Olds to Bicknell, 1919 October 24 (Withdrawal of Chesley from ) Folder 3 Articles of association, by-laws, etc. Proofs Articles of association Articles of association (final publication) Draft of by-laws Memorandum-1919 December 22 (LORCS - purpose, origin, etc., (p.7: "a general council has been called to meet at Geneva, 1920 March 2") Folder 4 Bicknell, Ernest P., Col., Commissioner for Europe Letter - Persons to Bicknell, 1919 June 24 Memorandum - Bicknell to Richardson, 1921 September 13 (Red Cross funds for scholarship to Latvian nurse) Letters A. R. Hill to Bicknell, 1921 (same) Bicknell to A. R. Hill, 1921 October 21 (ARC appropriations to be expended in Poland and handed to LORCS) Bicknell to Mills, 1921 October 24 (Red Cross funds for scholarship to Latvian nurse) Waters to Meek, 1921 November 5 (same) Olmsted to Mills, 1921 November 11 (Red Cross funds for scholarship to Latvian nurse) Mills to A. R. Hill, 1921 November 15 (same) Mills to Fletcher, 1921 November 17 (same) A. R. Hill to Bicknell, 1921 November 18 Hodges to Bicknell, 1921 January 25 Bryson to Bicknell, 1921 February 2 (Publications on typhus in Cattaro) Bicknell to Bryson, 1921 February 8 (same) Sand to Bicknell, 1922 February 23 (Liquidation of various ARC Commissions) Bicknell to Sand, 1922 February 25 (same) Sand to Bicknell, 1922 March 1 ( New York Times quote: " . . .Red Cross League may face collapse. . .") Rowe to Bicknell, 1922 April 1 (Second Council Meeting: proposal for Pan-American Conference) Bicknell to Sir Claude Hill, 1922 April 11 (Pan-Am Union, Pan-Am. Conference) Bicknell to Rowe, 1922 April 11 (Proposed Pan-Am. Conference) Kenny to Bicknell, 1922 April 21 (same) Bicknell to Kenny, 1922 April 25 (Proposal for Pan-American Conference to be held in Washington) Kenny to Bicknell, 1922 April 28 (same)

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Bicknell to A. R. Hill, 1922 June 2 (Attitude of French government toward LORCS) Sir Claude Hill to Bicknell, 1922 June 10 (Miss Olmsted to discuss 3rd International Course for Public Health Nurses) Memorandum - Bicknell to A. R. Hill, 1922 June 12 (Sir Claude Hill on moving of headquarters to Paris) Letters Bicknell to Sir Claude Hill, 1922 June 14 (Miss Nelson's attendance at Conference of Nurses) Sir Claude Hill to Bicknell, 1922 June 19 (same) Cable - Bicknell to (?) Hill, 1922 June 24 ("French Government has taken action necessary enable Licross come Paris") Folder 5 British Red Cross Society Memorandum-1921 March 8 (H. S. Wells on attitudes of British, French and American Red Cross pertaining to Geneva Conference) Letters Lakeman to Stanley, 1921 March 10 (Geneva Conference) Lakeman to Henderson, 1921 March 10 (same) Stanley to Lakeman, 1921 March 12 (same) Folder 6 Bryson, Lyman, Division of Junior Red Cross Letters Bryson to Persons, 1919 October 2 (Program of JRC in Europe) Persons to Bryson, 1919 October 10 Persons to Bryson, 1919 November 14 (Program of JRC in Europe) Bryson to Persons, 1919 November 18 Persons to Bryson, 1919 November 22 Bryson to Persons, 1919 December 6 Persons to Bryson, 1919 December 19 Bryson to Bicknell, 1921 August 25 (Funding: Nansen, Ador, Briand) Bicknell to Bryson, 1921 August 29 (Russian famine relief) Folder 7 Memorandum - Kittredge to Department of Organization, LORCS, 1921 March 21 (Peace program and attitude toward LORCS) Folder 8 Cannes Conference, 1919 Cables, 1919 March 20 (Incoming cable. Cannes Conference) March 20 (same) March 21 (same) March 21 (same) March 21 (same) March 21 (same) March 24 (same) April 1 (same) April 3 (same) April 3 (same) April 4 (same) April 4 (same) April 4 (same) April 5 (same) April 7 (same) April 7 (same) April 7 (same) April 8 (same) April 8 (same) April 8 (same) April 8 (same) April 8 (same) April 11 (same)

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April 14 (same) April 14 (same) April 14 (same) April 14 (same) April 14 (same) April 14 (same) April 14 (same) April 15 (same) March 31 (Outgoing cable, Cannes Conference) April 1 (same) April 1 (same) April 2 (same) April 3 (same) April 3 (same) April 4 (same) April 9 (same) April 12 (same) Newsclipping-1919 March 26 (Experts who will confer at Cannes) Memoranda Bicknell to Strong, 1919 June 18 (Arrival of dr. Janiszewski) Emerick to Olds, 1919 August 22 (Charges against LORCS appropriation WO-13) Cables Henderson to Morris, 1921 March 31 (IRC Conference) Centanini to Morris, 1921 April 1 (same) April 2 (same) April 4 (IRC Exhibition) April 4 (Xth IRC Conference) April 6 (same) April 7 (same) April 8 (same) April 11 ("Save the Children Fund" - International Congress) Folder 9 Clarke, Walter. Report, "Field Work in , Denmark, , Norway. . . ", 1920 October 9. Letter - Clarke to Burnham, 1922 April 11 (letter of resignation) Folder 10 Conference minutes Relationship of ARC to LORCS 1919 May 28 (conference minutes) June 13 (same) August 6 (same) August 12 (same) August 27 (same) October 25 (same) October 27 (same) December 30 (same) 1920 March 24 (same) April 19 (same) April 28 (same) Folder 11 Cross index folder Folder 12 Donations of materials by the American Red Cross to LORCS, 1919 Letters, Bridges to Payson 1919 October 30 (Total costs of appropriations. With attachment: letter, October 27 to Lewis from Bridges) October (Price Advice Sheets from ARC to LORCS) Folder 13 Finances, Miscellaneous, 1919 Letters

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Seidemann to Stouch, 1919 March 19 (Stouch's accounts) Hunter to Cutler, 1919 May 28 (Italian Commission - "Red Cross Tuberculosis Commission") Memorandum, Campbell to Seidemann, 1919 June 5 Campbell to Roberts, 1919 June 14 (Comptrollership of League) Campbell to Lilly, 1919 June 21 Seidemann to Lilly, 1919 June 23 Cable - Rockwell to Cutler, 1919 June 26 (Selling of American dollars) Letter - Seidemann to Davison, 1919 June 18 (Appropriation of WO-13. Attachments all concerned with WO-13) Memoranda Seidemann to Cutler, 1919 June 27 (Status of appropriation WO-13) Hunter to Olds, 1919 June 30 (Appropriation WO-13. Attachments all concerned with WO-13. Summary of appropriation WO-13) Letter - Mills to Seidemann, 1919 June 26 Memorandum - LORCS to All Dept. Heads, 1919 July 1 (Approval of vouchers) Letters LORCS to Seidemann, 1919 July 9 Rockwell to Seidemann, 1919 July 11 (Allowances) Rockwell to Seidemann, 1919 August 7 Seidemann to Rockwell, 1919 August 19 Seidemann to Roberts, 1919 August 20 (Expenses) Memoranda Seidemann to Assistant Secretary General, 1919 August 29 (Appropriation system) Seidemann to Comptroller, 1919 August 29 (Outline for handling cash) Secretary General to Heads of Deps., 1919 September 1 (Payrolls and personnel records) Seidemann to Henderson, 1919 September 2 (Distribution of general orders) Seidemann to Henderson, 1919 September 8 Letter - Grove to Seidemann, 1919 October 2 Folder 14 Financial matters - Nelson Mills Cable - Farrand to Mills, 1920 February 2 Letter - Mills to Lewis, 1920 February 5 Cable - Olds to Lewis, 1920 February 6 Memoranda Mills, 1920 February 27 Bobbett to Mills, 1920 March 11 Mills, 1920 April 12 (Memorandum for Staff conference re Roberts) Cables Rae to Mills, 1920 April 27 Rae, Farrand to Mills, 1920 May 27 Memoranda Gee to Mills, 1920 May 29 Mills to Gee, 1920 May 29 Letters Gee to Marjes, 1920 June 1 Harjes to Gee, 1920 June 7 Gee to Atkins, 1920 June 9 Gee to Morgan, Harjes and Co., 1920 June 9 Morgan, Harjes and Co. to Gee, 1920 June 14 Mills to Oliver, 1920 June 21 Cables Mills to Licross, 1920 July 1 Mills to Lewis, 1920 July 1 Letters Mills to Roberts, 1920 July 3

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Mills to Lewis, 1920 July 3 Atkins to Mills, 1920 July 5 (Regarding original funding of LORCS by ARC) Mills to Lewis, 1920 July 7 Memorandum - Mills to Olds, 1920 July 7 Cable - Mills to Lewis, 1920 July 7 Letters Lewis to Mills, 1921 February 1 Lowrence to Mills, 1921 April 11 Brown to Mills, 1921 April 29 (ARC expenditures on behalf of LORCS) Mills to Roberts, 1921 May 11 Atkins to Mills, 1921 May 13 Lewis to Mills, 1921 August 24 Memoranda Mills to Bicknell, 1921 September 8 ("Assisting relief operation of League of Red Cross Societies in Poland". Appropriation WO-40) Simons to Bicknell, 1921 September 14 Letter - Mills to Lewis, 1921 September 16 Memoranda Simons to Bicknell, 1921 September 17 Mills to Simons, 1921 September 19 Mills to Bicknell, 1921 September 21 (Appropriations made by Washington for the LORCS) Bicknell to Mills, 1921 September 26 Richardson to Mills, 1921 September 26 (Appropriation for Poland, LORCS) Mills to Richardson, 1921 September 28 (same) Mills to Anderson, 1921 October 19 Mills to Richardson, 1921 October 19 ("Child Health Fund" appropriation) Letters Mills to Ryan, 1921 October 21 Mills to Pratt, 1921 October 21 Memoranda Mills to Richardson, 1921 October 25 Mills to Bicknell, 1921 October 27 (Latvian scholarship) Mills to Workman, 1921 October 28 (same) Bicknell to Mills, 1921 November 4 Cables Burnham to AMCROSS, 1921 November 15 Swift to AMCROSS, 1921 November 15 Bicknell to Hill, 1921 November 16 Letter - Mills to A. R. Hill, 1921 November 17 Cable - Payne to Bicknell, 1921 November 25 Letters Mills to Simons, 1921 December 1 (Appropriation WO-40. Assisting relief operation of LORCS in Poland) Mills to LORCS, 1922 March 22 (Clarke's expense account) Folder 15 Financial statements Financial statement of the Committee of Red Cross Societies at the Cannes Headquarters for the period from inauguration to 1919 April 30. With memorandum from Seidemann to Rockwell on the finances of LORCS dated 1919 May 14 Statement of payments made on account. Committee of Red Cross Societies Personal Ledger. LORCS Statement showing Charges to date in April Account, 1921 April Folder 16 Fitzgerald, Alice, Director, Department of Nursing Letters Fitzgerald, 1919 October 17 (Pages 4, 5, and 6 of a letter signed by A. Fitzgerald re Polish relief work) Fitzgerald to Olds, 1920 March 29

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Olds to Fitzgerald, 1920 April 21 Fitzgerald to Olds, 1920 April 23 (New duties in Paris in connection with the ARC) Folder 17 General Council 1920 March 1 - LORCS. Resolutions submitted for discussion in the Section on Organization at the Meeting of the General Council Folder 18 Health Instruction Program for Baltic States Memorandum, Balfour to Knox, 1921 November 11 (Report on a popular health instruction program for the Baltic States) Folder 19 Hill, Claude, Sir, Director General Letters Emerson to Hill, 1921 June 10 (Child welfare work. To be linked with the national R. C. societies) Hill to Emerson, 1921 June 16 Bicknell to Hill, 1922 April 27 Bicknell to Hill, 1922 June 16 Knox to Hill, 1922 July 6 (Proposal of "central bureau for the exchange of information from the various fields of activity in which the American Red Cross has been interested and from which, at the present time, all of our American personnel has been withdrawn") Folder 20 Hoover, Herbert Letters Persons to Olds, 1919 July 24 (Feeding of children in the liberated countries in reference to Herbert Hoover's connection with ARC) Olds to Persons, 1919 August 4 Folder 21 International Red Cross, Cooperation with Letters Keppel to Rappard, 1919 November 12 (Sir David Henderson's suggestion of using the "International Red Cross as an agency for looking up individuals in enemy countries and possibly forwarding sums of money and small packages") Keppel to Rappard, 1919 December 13 de Bisping to Rappard, 1920 February 7 Rappard to Olds, 1920 February 25 Folder 22 League of Nations Letters Henderson to Olds, 1920 April 22 (Requesting the services of Dr. Kendall Emerson of the ARC for position as medical representative to accompany the League of Nations Mission into Russia) Olds to Farrand, 1920 April 27 (Dr. Kendall Emerson) Olds to Henderson, 1920 April 28 (same) Farrand to Olds, 1920 May 19 (same) Drummond to Henderson, 1920 May 31 (Outcome of LORCS General Council in March 1920: "That upon assurance from the League of nations the food, clothing and transportation will be supplied by Governments, the League of Red Cross Societies shall at once formulate plans for the immediate extension of voluntary relief within the affected districts") Article - "Geneva. Capital of the League of Nations" Folder 23 Medical Department. Minutes of meetings, 1920 September-December September 2 9 16 23 30 October 7 14 22

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28 November 4 11 18 27 December 2 9 16 23 Folder 24 Miscellaneous Letters Drummond to Henderson, 1920 May 31 ("That upon assurance from the League of Nations food, clothing and transportation will be supplied by Governments, the League of red Cross Societies shall at once formulate plans for the immediate extension of voluntary relief within the affected districts." Resolution passed by the General Council in 1920 March) Olds to Henderson, 1920 June 7 (Request for immediate conference in Paris for funding) Cable - Farrand, 1920 November 19 Letter - Lakeman to Brown, 1921 April 14 (Possibility of Hungarian Red Cross joining LORCS) Cables Farrand to Pearce, 1921 October 21 Farrand to Pearce, 1921 October 21 Scot to A. R. Hill, 1922 March 28 (Davison elected Chairman) Map - Countries belonging to the LORCS Memorandum - Fitzgerald (Recommendations concerning moving LORCS headquarters from Geneva to Paris) Folder 25 Miscellaneous, 1919 January-July Letters Persons to Cutler, 1919 May 20 (". . . that the League of Red Cross Societies may soon be called upon to deal with a definite proposition from the Supreme Economic Council to undertake a campaign against typhus fever in eastern and southern Europe and to plan for substantial and continuing relief work in that region") Persons to Cutler, 1919 May 21 - Draft of above Memoranda Hunter to Cutler, 1919 May 28 Barbour to Olds, 1919 June 3 (Founding of ARC museum and library in Washington) Bicknell to Barbour, 1919 June 5 Index, 1919 June 12 Cables Farrand to Olds, 1919 June 12 (Eastern European Relief) Henderson to Farrand, 1919 June 14 (same) Henderson to Scheitlin, 1919 June 28 (Appointment of Rappard as Secretary General of the League) Memorandum - Olds to Bobbett, 1919 July 2 (Regarding N. Hapgood, U.S. Minister to Denmark) Cables Davison to Henderson, 1919 July 4 (".....question of policies and relationship between League and individual societies") Folder 26 Miscellaneous, 1919 August-October Cables Ryan, 1919 August 5 (Danish Red Cross)

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Bicknell to Ryan, 1919 August 6 (With an attached note: proposed conference between Soviet Russian Red Cross and allied Red Cross Societies. Donation to Danish Red Cross) Letter - Persons to Olds, 1919 August 8 Cable - Strong to Davison, 1919 August 9 Newsclipping - New York Herald, 1919 August 11 ("First Red Cross step to stamp out typhus") Cables Olds to Scheitlin, 1919 August 11 (Typhus situation in Poland) Olds to AMCROSS (Fund drive) Memorandum - Payson to Pres. de la Delegation de Paix, de la Republique d'Azerbaidjan, 1919 August 14 Letters Rockwell to Bicknell, 1919 August 19 Henderson to Bicknell, 1919 August 19 (Acceptance of contributions from ARC) Bicknell to Henderson, 1919 August 21 (same) Letter - Henderson to Bicknell, 1919 August 21 (Conference minutes re funding) Cables Bicknell to Strong, 1919 August 22 Strong, 1919 August 23 Farrand to Olds, 1919 August 25 (ARC donation to LORCS) Letter - Bicknell to Rockwell, 1919 August 25 Cables Bicknell to LICROSS, 1919 August 25 Henderson to Davison, 1919 September 3 (Polish relief work) Letter - Henderson to Bicknell, 1919 September 3 (Repatriation of enemy prisoners of war from Siberia) Memorandum - ARC, 1919 September 9 Letters Bicknell to Persons, 1919 September 20 ( aid to wounded soldiers) Persons to Bicknell, 1919 September 22 Cables LICROSS, 1919 September 22 Payson to AMCROSS, 1919 September 26 Letter - Bicknell to Persons, 1919 September 29 Cable - Butkiewicz to Olds, 1919 October 4 Letters Walling to Olds, 1919 October 8 (Relationship of the ARC with LORCS) Bicknell to Persons, 1919 October 11 Cables Bridges to Wells, 1919 October 13 Fitzgerald to AMCROSS, 1919 October 14 (Acceptance of Chief Nurse position for LORCS) Letters Strong to Bicknell, 1919 October 14 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 October 17 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 October 17 Memorandum - Wells to Bicknell, 1919 October 25 (McKee's appointment as Paris representative of LORCS) Box 2., Folder 27 Miscellaneous, 1919 November-December Letters Persons to Chesley, 1919 November 3 (Polish relief work) Bicknell to Rappard, 1919 November 5 (Vienna Committee) Memorandum - Cooke-Smith to Payson, 1919 November 5 (Drugs for the Czecho-Slovak government)

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Cable - Olds to Bicknell, 1919 November 5 (AMCROSS position in League work in Poland) Letters Cooke-Smith to Persons, 1919 November 5 (Drugs for Czecho-Slovak government) Persons to Allen, 1919 November 6 Persons to Bobbett, 1919 November 7 Bicknell to Strong, 1919 November 7 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 27 Strong to Bicknell, 1919 November 28 Rappard to Bicknell, 1919 November 28 Keppel to Bicknell, 1919 November 28 (Relationship of ARC to LORCS) Persons to Payson, 1919 November 29 Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 29 Press release-1919 November 30 (Statement issued by Sir David Henderson on the threat of westward extension of typhus from Poland.) Information on the formation of the LORCS and the relations and effects on national Red Cross societies) Letters Fitzgerald to Olds, 1919 December 1 Secretary Bicknell to Persons, 1919 December 1 Secretary Bicknell to Pesrons, 1919 December 1 (LORCS. Statistics of membership in national Red Cross societies) Strong to Olds, 1919 December 2 Olds to Fitzgerald, 1919 December 3 (Miss Fitzgerald's departure from the ARC to join LORCS) Secretary Bicknell to Rappard, 1919 December 4 Memorandum - Payson to Persons, 1919 December 5 (Drugs for Czecho-Slovakia) Letter - Bicknell to Strong, 1919 December 8 (Decision to turn over "Red Cross Tuberculosis Commission in Italy" records to the League) Cable - Olds to Farrand, 1919 December 8 (Polish relief) Memorandum - Payson to Persons, 1919 December 8 Letters Bicknell to Persons, 1919 December 9 Bicknell to Persons, 1919 December 9 (Czecho-Slovakia. Personnel) Memoranda McKee to Payson, 1919 December 11 Payson to Williams, 1919 December 12 Payson to McKee, 1919 December 12 Letters Persons to Bicknell, 1919 December 12 Strong to Bicknell, 1919 December 12 (ARC Tuberculosis Commission to Italy) Memoranda McKee to Payson, 1919 December 12 Payson to McKee, 1919 December 13 Payson to Johnson, 1919 December 13 Letters Persons to Bicknell, 1919 December 15 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 December 15 Bicknell to Persons, 1919 December 16 (Czecho-Slovakia supplies) Olds to Persons, 1919 December 16 Memorandum - Dupas to Payson, 1919 December 16 Letter - Bobbett to Persons, 1919 December 17 Memoranda McKee to Payson, 1919 December 17 McKee to Payson, 1919 December 17 Letter - Bicknell to Persons, 1919 December 18 Memorandum - McKee to Payson, 1919 December 18

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Letter - Bicknell to Persons, 1919 December 20 (Major Thwaite's report on typhus conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina) List-1919 December 20 Letters Persons to Bobbett, 1919 December 22 Bicknell to Persons, 1919 December 23 Snow to Emerson, 1919 December 23 (Social hygiene) Lakeman to Olds, 1919 December 23 (Czecho-Slovakia) Memorandum - Keppel to Olds, 1919 December 23 (Personnel vacancies) Letters Lakeman to Bicknell, 1919 December 23 Keppel to Olds, 1919 December 26 Memorandum - Fitzgerald , 1919 December 26 (Attached: Outline of two possible schemes for the training of public health nurses: introductory letter to the questionnaire; and the questionnaire) Letter - Bicknell to Persons, 1919 December 27 Memoranda Payson to Dupas, 1919 December 27 Payson to Ivorzcek, 1919 December 29 (Introducing Mr. H. S. Wells) McKee to Payson, 1919 December 29 (Commissary articles for LORCS) Payson to McKee, 1919 December 30 (Prices on commissary supplies) Folder 28 News Sheet-1920 March 6 (issued by the Department of Information and Publication, LORCS) Folder 29 Paget, Muriel, Lady - Missions Letters Lakeman to Olds, 1920 April (Paget's Missions in Eastern Europe to be placed under general direction of League) Olds to Lakeman, 1920 April 30 (same) Emerson to Brown, 1920 December 3 (Lady Muriel Paget's Missions) Mills to Gielgud, 1921 March 15 (same) Pitt to Ryan, 1921 June 11 (Paget's child welfare work in the Baltic Provinces) Folder 30 Paris Office Memoranda Allen to Olds, 1920 April 20 (Discontinuation of use of Paris Office) Allen to Williams, 1920 May 4 (Paris office discontinued as of 1920 April 30) Folder 31 Frank W. Persons. Report, 1920 March 24 (Draft and final copy of report on health conditions in general, in Poland, the Ukraine, Russia, Austria, , , Czecho-Slovakia, the Baltic States, Hungary, Montenegro, and Albania) Folder 32 Poland Letters Henderson to ARC, 1919 October 7 (Report of the Medical Commission of LORCS sent to Poland. Attached: Bulletin of LORCS - proofs) Mills to Yowell, 1920 April 27 ($400,000 appropriation for expenditures in Poland) Memorandum - Yowell to Mills, 1920 June 21 (Remittance for LORCS - Poland) Letter - Yowell to Mills, 1920 September 13 (Funds from LORCS - Poland) Memorandum - Mills to Murphy, 1921 January 14 (Shipments 1, 11, and 13) Cable - Brown to Barge, 1921 February 21 Letters Mills to Wells, 1921 February 25 (Shipment 1, 11, and 13) Allen to Taylor, 1921 September 24 (Appropriations) Folder 33 "Pour l'Enfance et la Famille par l'Aide Sociale" (a summary report). Suite de la Fondation de la Croix-Rouge Americaine dans le 19ieme Arrondissement Letters Hereford to Bicknell, 1919 November 10 Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 10 (Alfred Kammermann and a plan for the care of war orphans) Rappard to Bicknell, 1919 November 10

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Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 11 (ARC contribution of $500,000.00 to LORCS for typhus work) Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 11 Persons to Payson, 1919 November 11 (Drugs for the Czecho-Slovak government) Cables-1919 November 11 (ARC relations with the League. Incoming and outgoing cables - Washington) Letters Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 12 ( requests for assistance) Strong to Bicknell, 1919 November 13 (Compensations of ARC nurses sent to Poland) Strong to Bicknell, 1919 November 13 Bicknell to Rappard, 1919 November 13 Memorandum - Allen to Pedlow, 1919 November 13 Cable - Olds to Bicknell, 1919 November 14 ("..It is agreed in principle that for as possible program of League to be based upon report its commission to Poland and cables Licross to Davison, shall be supported by extension Amcross operation under general supervision League.") Letter - Bicknell to Hereford, 1919 November 14 Memorandum - Allen to LORCS, 1919 November 14 Letters Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 14 Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 14 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 14 Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 14 (Romanian Red Cross) Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 14 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 14 (Appropriations) Memorandum - Payson to Corbin, 1919 November 14 (Request for requisition - drugs for Czecho-Slovakia) Cable - Bicknell to Olds, 1919 November 15 Letter - Bartlett to Strong, 1919 November 16 Cables Farrand to Bicknell, 1919 November 17 Bicknell to Farrand, 1919 November 18 ("concerning League Commissioner. Most important immediate action is to select him and get him to Poland.") Letters Payson to Persons, 1919 November 18 (Drugs for Czecho-Slovakia) Rappard to Bicknell, 1919 November 18 Memorandum - Allen to LORCS, 1919 November 19 (Relief for American citizens in Europe) Letter - Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 19 Cable - Persons, 1919 November 20 (Proposal of Shaw as Commissioner) Letters Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 20 Persons to Strong, 1919 November 20 Cable - Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 20 Letters Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 21 Strong to Bicknell, 1919 November 21 (Polish relief) Bicknell to Persons, 1919 November 22 Cable - Farrand, 1919 November 24 (Proposal of Shaw as Commissioner) Letters Strong to Olds, 1919 November 24 Strong to Waldron, 1919 November 24 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 24 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 24 Persons to Payson, 1919 November 25 (Drugs for Czecho-Slovakia)

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Memorandum - Payson to Persons, 1919 November 26 (same) Letters Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 26 Persons to Bicknell, 1919 November 27 (Poland) Joly to Strong, 1920 March 1 Rappard to Olds, 1920 April 13 Memorandum - Olds to Todd, 1920 April 15 Letters Bojesen to Rappard, 1920 April 27 Rappard to Bojesen, 1920 May 3 Folder 34 Preliminary League material Clipping - Journal de Geneve, 1918(?) ("La Croix Rouge de la Paix") Speech - Davison, 1919 February 21 (an address by Henry P. Davison, chairman, Committee of Red Cross Societies (on the proposals of that Committee for a broader peacetime organization of the International Red Cross) Folder 35 Publications Bulletin -1919 May 15 (Bulletin of the LORCS) Pamphlet-1920 April ( Building Up a Red Cross Society) Information bulletin-1921 March 7 ( L'Unite de commandement dans la lutte contre la souffrance en Europe: La Ligue des Societes de la Croix-Rouge en accepte la responsabilite ) New items-1922 February 1 ("The following items, collected by the League of Red Cross Societies, are transmitted to those societies by way of supplement to the information and news published under the title of "The Peace Work of the Red Cross" in the January issue of Vers la Sante) Circulars 1922 February 17 ("The following notes are issued by the League of Red Cross Societies for the information of member societies and they are to be considered as supplementary to the notes published in the January edition of The World's Health, under the title "Red Cross in Peace") 1922 March 6 (same as above except the notes are supplementary to those published in the February edition) No. 3, 1922 March 22 (same as above, except the notes are supplementary to those published in the March edition) No. 5, 1922 May (same as above, except the notes are supplementary to those published in the May edition) Supplement to No. 5, 1922 May 13 ( Junior Red Cross Bulletin) Letter - Sand to Bicknell, 1922 June 23 (Information supplement) Folder 36 Publicity News release - W. Wilson to Davison, 1919 May 13 ("Permit me to congratulate you and your associates representing the Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, , Italy and Japan upon the formation of the League of Red Cross Societies designed to unite the Red Cross societies of the world in active cooperation against the miseries which arise from disease and disaster) Letter - Scarborough to Emerson, 1920 April 14 (Securing non-scientific publicity for the LORCS) Folder 37 Ryan, Edward W., Dr., American Red Cross Commissioner for Western Russia Letters Ryan to Brown, 1920 January 5 (Funds for Russia) Brown to Ryan, 1920 December 24. Soviet Relief Committee. Joint Distribution Committee - an American Jewish organization Ryan to Brown, 1920 January 17 (same) Brown to Ryan, 1921 January 26 (same) Ryan to Brown, 1921 February 1 Bicknell to Ryan, 1921 October 25 (League Personnel) Gielgud to Ryan, 1922 May 17 (Scheduled visit to Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Poland)

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Ryan to Olmsted, 1922 June 7 (International Public Health Nursing courses) Folder 38 Supreme Economic Council Memoranda Supreme Economic Council 1919 May 26 (Health conditions in southern and Eastern Europe) Cable - Hereford to Mumford, 1919 May 29 (Request for founder members and newly invited members to join in the battle against typhus in Eastern and Southeastern Europe) Memorandum-1919 May 30 (meeting with the Economic Council Letter - Rappard to Thompson, 1920 March 13 (typhus conditions in Russia) Folder 39 Swiss Commission. Tuberculosis Relief. American Red Cross Letters Mills to Roberts, 1920 June 7 (Final liquidation of tuberculosis activities in Berne) Roberts to Mills, 1920 June 12 (Commission Centrale Suisse) Voucher - Lutz(?) to Mills, 1920 June 14 (Fund for Commission Centrale Suisse) Letters Roberts to Mills, 1920 July 5 (Audit Commission Centrale Suisse) Brown to Mills, 1920 July 17 Mills to Brown, 1920 July 20 (Swiss Commission's Tuberculosis Relief Fund) Memoranda Mills to Olds, 1920 July 26 (same) Olds to Mills, 1920 July 27 (donation to the LORCS) Letters Mills to Brown, 1920 July 29 (same) Brown to Mills, 1920 August 3 (same) Mills to Roberts, 1920 August 7 (Swiss Commission Tuberculosis Relief) Folder 40 Transportation Department (Danzig) Letter - Brown to Lakeman, 1921 May 7

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