NATIONAL
SCHEME
MEN
DISABLED M.I.2./50/42
From:
Brigadier L. F. Field.
Dear
Mr Gent,
Room 121
The War Office,
Whitehall,
S.W.1.
SECRET
82
76
I send you herewith copies of a letter from Brigadier Grimsdale, our Military Attache in Chungking, and the enclosure to it.
You may be interested in the remarks about Dr. Selwyn-Clarke. My own view is that, until we get more and better evidence that he is collaborating with the Japanese to our injury, it is a fair assumption that his Japanese connections are only such as are necessary to enable him to carry on his work on behalf of our prisoners and the British civil population. His sharing an office with the "Japanese military and civil A. D's. M. S" is consistent with this view.
There seem to be better grounds of suspicion against some of the other people mentioned, but we can do nothing about them here.
The only person who is in a position to take effective action against anyone suspected of jeopardising this very important scheme is Ride himself.
I am sending a copy of this letter, with its enclosures, to M.I.9.
Yours sincerely,
G. E. J. Gent, Esq., 0.B.E., D. S.0., M.C.,
G.E.J.Gent,
Colonial Office,
S. W. 1.
Chald
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