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STRIN
urged that every-
thing possible should be done to expedite the
appointment of Mr. Ogilvie. Hajor Storrs
undertook to try and hesten matters up.
the
D LE BRANDT went on to say that
The
Detailed
af er the proposal about an Economic Liaison
officer had been made a further proposal had
been received from is Majesty's Embassy,
Chungking for a much wider liaison scheme.
idea was that a liaison unit should be
attached to Chinose Advanced Headquarters.
The Foreign Office had proposed that this
should be discussed interdepartmentally after
the appointment of an Aconomic liaison officer
had been settled. ince then a sti11
further proposal had been received.
information, which had been circulated to
epartments, about G-b showed the very
wide scope of that organisɛtion. A report
by Colonel Cowell about its ramifications
had led to a proposal that the Economic Liaison
officer should be provided with a staff to main-
tein contact with it. This was for contmot in
Chungkin in contradistinction to the liaison
unit which would work in the field with advanced
General Headquarters. The setting up of an
Economic Liaison officer as a semi-independent
organisation with his own staff did not square
with the original conception of his functions
ss a link betecon 0-5 and the Tarious existing
British organisatione; and it was not quite
clear how these proposals fitted in with ir
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