CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945 — Page 26

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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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