{"value"=>"<p>These folders contain letters, memoranda, and other documents about assignments, compensation, home leave, benefits, aid to correspondents' families, Christmas packages, supplies of food and medicines, and financial arrangements due to hazardous assignments, currency fluctuations, and economic conditions and taxes in the areas served. All such material pertains to the foreign staff as a whole or groups of correspondents. Included are AHS's memoranda stressing the value of having the top executives meet with correspondents on home leave (1960-1962), correspondence among AHS, Edwin L. James, Turner Catledge, and CLS on a major redeployment of correspondents, including the sometimes conflicting authorities of the managing editor and the chief foreign correspondent (1949-1953), CLS's memoranda on staffing and assignments in Europe and the Middle East, procedures involving visitors from other departments and writers and columnists, especially James Reston (1945-1946), Frederick T. Birchall's memorandum on European operations if war breaks out (1939), and a list of correspondents as of December 1935.</p>"}