The collection consists of two groups of papers. Miscellaneous papers contains the King Haakon interview notes; a copy of a letter to Barry Faris, general news manager, International News Service, from Tolischus recounting his recent trip to Russia, with descriptions of conditions in Russia and Moscow and the Moscow news situation, June 17, 1930; a letter to Mr. Birchall (annotated “not sent”) from Tolischus giving his account of the accusations of the German newspaper Voelkische Beobachter against Tolischus, then Berlin correspondent for the New York Times, ca. Dec., 1937; and a handwritten account of the surrender of Warsaw, Sept. 27, 1939.
Papers concerning the confinement and evacuation of foreign correspondents, missionaries, diplomats, and businessmen from the Orient in July-August, 1942, after the outbreak of World War II, include press dispatches, about two dozen brief personal accounts and eyewitness reports upon which Tolischus based his press dispatches, and statistics and lists concerning the evacuees. The press dispatches concern the arrival of evacuation ships, the Asama Maru and the Conte Verde, Port of Lourenco Marquez (East African port) and the arrival aboard the Gripsholm of the Japanese diplomats for whom these evacuees were to be exchanged; and the earlier treatment of the evacuees while they were interned or imprisoned in Japan. The statistics concern the nationalities and numbers of persons on board the Asama Maru , passenger lists for the Asama Maru and the Gripsholm, and other lists including Britishers imprisoned, Church of England mission staff in Japan as of June 1942, miscellaneous persons interned and missing, and institutions in Hong Kong taken over by the Japanese.
