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BRITISH EMBASSY, CHUNGKING,
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On receipt of your telegram No.470 of 29th ilay, from which it was clear that the scheme propounded in my despatch No.411 of the 12th April, to appoint an Economic D07: Liaison Officer to work with American Army Headquarters in
T Chungking, had met with your approval, it was decided to approach General Olmsted with a request that we be allowed @
to obtain some insight into the working of the section with which the new officer would be primarily concerned. As a result my Assistant Military Attaché, Colonel E. J. Cowell, called on General Olmsted on 8th June and was given full facilities to inform himself of the activities of the G-5 section of United States Army Headquarters.
I now have the honour to transmit to you a copy of an interesting report prepared by Colonel Cowell on his conversations with the officers of this section.
2. I think it advisable that you should have this report before you as soon as possible, particularly having regard to the possibility that the officer to be appointed to the post of Economic Liaison Officer may not yet have left London by the time this despatch reaches you.
The following comments on the despatch are therefore of a tentative nature, and the implications of Colonel Cowell's memorandum will be further studied here and reported upon in due course. I would propose that an attempt should be made to draft here, for consideration by you and other departments concerned in London, a general directive for the Economic Liaison Officer, which would presumably be issued by the War Office to the G.0.C. British Troops in China.
3. It is clear from Colonel Cowell's report that the Economic Liaison Officer is likely to be fully occupied with important work and I do not doubt but that the view expressed in paragraph 4 (f) of the memorandum that ho will require more staff will prove to be correct. I suggest that steps should at once be taken to consider suitable candidates for appointment to the Liaison Office.
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On paragraph 3(e) of Colonel Cowell's memorandum, while we shall have to await Colonel Junge's views when he has had time to familiarise himself with his new job, it is of interest that General Olmsted informed a member of my
The Right Honourable,
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