{"value"=>"<p>These folders contain letters, memoranda, and other documents about AHS's views and the NYT's reports and editorials on military matters, AHS's visits to military installations and defense plants, speeches to military schools, attendance at conferences on diverse aspects of the defense program, visits of military officers to the NYT, and related matters. A recurrent theme is the need to inform troops about current affairs, especially the reasons for military action and the need for peacetime defenses. In 1941 AHS assigned Hilton H. Railey to conduct a survery of morale in Army camps. The survey was not published in the NYT but was sent to the pertinent Cabinet officers. This survey was instrumental in the creation of the Army Information and Education School and many documents in these folders concern the survey and other aspects of the information and education program. Also included here are AHS's speech to the Air War College on \"Public Opinion in the Modern State\" (1956), correspondence about AHS's visit to Fort Myer, Va., the Defense Department, and other installations in the Washington, D.C. area (1955), the possible closing of the Army Information and Education School at Ft. Slocum (1953-1954), B. Fine's survey of military information programs (1951), the unification of the armed services, which AHS favored (1945-1947, 1950, 1951), AHS's participation in a special meeting of the Personnel Policy Board (1949), a Defense Orientation Conference attended by AHS (1948), correspondence with Vannevar Bush about military research and problem of national security vs. press responsibility to report developments, correspondence prompted by Hanson Baldwin's report on military developments that allegedly breached security and related memoranda (1947-1948), correspondence about an Air War College seminar for civilians attended by AHS and subsequent trip to Eglin Field, Florida (1947), correspondence about AHS's service on a citizens committee for universal military training, pamphlets and reports from this committee, and his speech to NYC teachers and school administrators advocating Universal Military Training and Universal Military Service, and letters about the speech (1943-1945), a letter to Secretary of the Nave James Forrestal, after AHS's tour of Red Cross installations, criticizing the Navy's attitude toward the Red Cross and cooperation with other services (1944), correspondence about AHS's participation in a tour of military bases in the South by newspaper editors and publishers (1944), correspondence about the War Department's documentary and education films (1943-1944), AHS's trip to Western defense plants, Railey's report on the possibility of sabotage (1942), memoranda about Railey's survey of Army morale (1941), and a memorandum of issues to be discussed at a special editorial conference on national defense (1938).</p>"}