UL ¦    /j/<*,
Admiral Sir Charles Little
I attach the letters from
Lord Hankey and Sir David Scott, about
which I talked to you yesterday. When
you have read them perhaps you would
show them to Lieut.-General Wemyss
and Air Marshal Harris.       Then the
four of us might have a meeting to
discuss how best to deal with the question*
raised in the two letters, whether there
is any action to be taken in the meantime
pending Mr. Hopkins' return, and what
line we should take with him when he
does get back to this country.
It would probably be useful
if you brought to this meeting those
members of your respective staff who
are particularly interested in the question.
H.E. has spoken to Admiral
Little about this and the question was
also mentioned at Thursday's meeting
of the Heads of Missions.     The result
of all this discussion was that
.Admiral Little entirely agreed that
it would be desirable that some member
of the Chancery should be associated
in the handling of these problems -
both !>Vtew-^ii*wH^4ftg internally among
the various British authorities concerned
and iSjrvwr^irtHid^iftg with the American
authorities.^ said there had
been some preliminary discussion of the
question between him and Mr.Harriman
and it had been agreed that no further
progress could be made until Mr.Hopkins
returned.
In the meantime, however, I
think it would be useful if Mr. Foster,
who admiral Little Knows will be dealing
with the matter from the Chancery side -
were to get in touch with the officers
of the Joint Staff Mission who are
dealing with the question and talk the
whole thing over.
/It would
It would be a great help if,
as a result of all these discussions,
some effective means could be devised of
dealing with the very considerable
number of applications we are now receiving
from residents in the United States
who are anxious to go to England to work
in some capacity as engineers or
labourers but who do not seem to come
within the scope of the British Civilian
Technical Corps scheme.
August 9th 1941.
• I have had a talk with
Admiral Little, who is anxious for me
to discuss the matter v/ith the three
Heads of the Joint Staff Mission at a
time to be arranged later-. -
August 13th 1941.