{"value"=>"<p>AHS was very active in the Red Cross. He was elected an Incorporator (1937), a member of the Central Committee and of the board of the New York Chapter (1942), and a member of the board of governors (1951). He headed the Blood Donor Committee of the New York Chapter and was a member of the Future Planning Committee. These folders contain documents relating to all his activities except the blood donor campaign (the documents relating to that are under Blood Banks). They concern Red Cross operations within the United States and abroad, especially during World War II, fund-raising and publicity, and AHS's and the NYT's roles in both, changes in the administration and policies of the Red Cross, recruiting and training of volunteers, certificates honoring AHS and the NYT for their contributions, and criticism of Red Cross policies and activities. Included are letters about AHS's Red Cross tours in England, 1942, and the USSR, 1943, and in Pacific areas, 1944-1945 (1961, 1971, 1973), AHS's memorandum about his opposition to Basil O'Connor's reappointment as national chairman and AHS's failure to win re-election to the Central Committee (1957), letters and memoranda about the lag in NYT employees' contributions (1957), AHS's resignation from the board of the New York Chapter and OED's election in his stead (1947), correspondence and clippings about the Central Committee's dissension over O'Connor's reappointment and AHS's failure to be re-elected to the Committee (1945-1946), letters and other documents about Red Cross fund-raising agreement with committees of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) (1945), letters, reports, memoranda, and other documents about AHS's Red Cross survey trips, with Turner Catledge to the Pacific in 1944 and with James Reston to England, Russia, and Mediterranean-Near East areas in 1943, correspondence with persons he met during those trips is included though it may not deal with Red Cross matters, photographs (1943-1945), letters, memoranda, and reports by Catledge and others about Red Cross efforts to get supplies to prisoners of war in Japanese-held areas, letters about Catledge's series of articles on Red Cross operations, letters about AHS's speech to the North Atlantic Region conference of the Red Cross (1943-1944), letters, cables, reports and other documents about AHS's trip to Britain to check on Red Cross operations there, correspondence with military and political leaders, reports, photographs (1942), correspondence about a United States bill to restrict use of the red cross symbol to the Red Cross (1942, 1944), and a report of a committee on Red Cross services to the armed forces (1941-1942).</p>"}