{"value"=>"<p>The correspondence series forms the most complete segment of the collection. It is organized into three sections: chronological correspondence, alphabetical correspondence, and telegrams, but all of then date from the Board's founding in January, 1942 until its demise in the Fall of 1945, are with the same correspondents, and concern the same topics, making it necessary for the researcher to consult all three. Correspondence is very largely that of Secretary-General Feliks Gross; some belongs to General Steering committee Chairman Sava N. Kosanovich, Research Associates Olgierd Langer and Dragan Plamenac, and other Board members and staff. It is largely in English, with some in Polish, and a few items in German, French, and possibly other languages. Miscellaneous reports, speeches, articles, invitations, clippings, press releases, and other printed and typescript documents can be found among the letters.</p> <p>Topics discussed include: the formation of the Board; arrangements for the educational forums in which the Board participated; New Europe and other Board publications; wartime conditions (including the situation of the Jews) in Czechoslovakia, Greece, Poland, and Yugoslavia; plans for postwar reconstruction and federation in the region; requests for information and publications from individuals and organizations, and the Board's requests for the same from them; routine office matters; and Gross' own speaking engagements, books, and articles. A small amount of correspondence (with the World Jewish Congress and other organizations and individuals) documents Gross' efforts to assist members of his family still in Europe.</p> <p>Correspondents include: officials of the four governments in New York, Washington D. C., London, and elsewhere (filed by country name in the alphabetical correspondence section), and a variety of individuals and organizations located largely in the United States, including: American Academy of Political and Social Science; American Friends Service Committee; Anti-Nazi League; Antioch College; Belgian Commission for the Study of War Problems (Commission Beige Pour 1'Etude des Problemes d'Apres-Guerre, or CEPAG); Wladyslaw M. Besterman; Board of Economic Warfare, Washington D. C.; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Stephen Chaconas; Lewis Corey; Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace; commission to Study the Organization of Peace; Confederation Internationale des Etudiants; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Columbia University; Free World magazine; C. J. Friedrich; Varian Fry; Geneseo State Teachers College; Arthur Goldsmith; Hofstra College; Hoover Library of War, Revolution, and Peace; George B. de Huszar; Institute of Democracy; Institute of Jewish Affairs; Institute of World Economics; International Labor Office; Jozef P. Junosza; Journal of Central European Affairs; Kolin Publishers; Tadeusz Korsak; Jan B. Kozak; Leo Krzycki; Eugene M. Kulischer; Tadeusz Kusniarz; Olgierd Langer; Latin American Economic Institute; League of Nations; Irena Poplawska Leinveber; Philip Mosely; Eric Mann (representing the Fifth Avenue Forum); National Council of Women; National Resources Planning Board; Netherlands Study Group for Postwar Reconstruction; National Planning Association; New School for Social Research; New York Public Library; New York University; Office of Strategic Services; Office of War Information; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences; Polish Telegraph Agency; Otakar Odlozilik; Rand School of Social Science; Joseph Roucek; Rutgers University; Russell Sage College; Reinhold Schairer; William Marston Seabury; Clarence Senior; various United Nations bodies (the United Nations Information Office, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, others); various United States government departments; United States Committee on Educational Reconstruction; University of Wyoming; Vassar College; World Jewish Congress; others.</p>"}