{"value"=>"<p>The Board's committee records are fragmentary. They include minutes of the General Steering Conmittee dating from the organizing meeting on January 7, 1942 until January 11, 1943, with some related agenda, budgets, and notes; minutes of coordinating meetings of the secretaries of the national groups (Secretary-General Gross and the editor of New Europe also attended), January-May, 1942. The Education committee is represented by minutes of one meeting, the preliminary meeting of July 15, 1942; correspondence of Education Committee Chairman Boris Furlan; miscellaneous reports, notes, lists, and clippings; minutes of a meeting of the United States committee on Educational Reconstruction (a meeting of its Commission for Problems of Workers and Adult Education), July 15, 1943, that Gross attended; and minutes of a joint meeting of the Board and the U. S. Committee on Educational Reconstruction (the topics was textbooks for Europe), June 14, 1943. Also, minutes of the inaugural meeting of the Joint Economic Committees, May 28, 1942, with related addresses; Economic Committee correspondence, 1942-1943 (some is that of Committee Chairman Antonin Basch); sparse minutes and correspondence, ca. 1942-1943 of Economic Committee subcommittees on agriculture, industry, and finance and foreign trade.</p>"}