At this point, the guardianship of these files became the duty of Alice C. Sher. In 1948 she was appointed assistant executive secretary of the ICN. Previous to this appointment, when had served as the president of the International Nurses Screening Board, "a body set up by UNRRA and later taken over by IRO, composed of refugee nurses of different nationalities who had held leading positions in their own countries"v
been of great assistance in bringing the work concerned with refugee nurses within the compass of the ICN; and by being so closely involved with the re-settlement of these nurses the ICN had established friendly contacts with nursing registration authorities in various This experience had:
parts of the worldvi.