23rd September, 1941.
Dear Cribbett,
As we agreed over tho telephone today
I an writing to you to give you the information
about the so-called Ordway acheno.   Ordway is an
undergraduate at Harvard who come to us with a
strong recommendation from Wrong of the Canadian
Legation, and made an extremely favourable impression.
His idea is to organize a ;:;roup of young Americans
of college age who will go to 3n~,land to do any kind
of work in which they could be useful.   They will be
prepared to do semi-skilled labour such a3 dock con-
struction, to work in civilian defence or to join
the armed forces.   They would like to stay on in
England after tho war to assist in the work of re-
construction,
2. ka regards those who wish to Join the
armed forces, it would seem better to direct them
to the normal channels.   But the other two ideas
seem worth following up.   Apart from the actual use-
ful work they could do, the value from the point of
view of Anglo-American relations mi#it easily be
considerable.
3. Foster discussed this with Ben Cohen.
The latter suggested that it would bo best to approach
Stettiniua about tho scheme as Stettinius was nominated
by the President to doal with the American C.T.C.
Cohen also suggested that rather than create another
unit, a category for semi-skilled labour should be
created in the C.T.C.
G. Cribbett, Ssq.
1424 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. WGH:HS
4. You said that you would like to have
a note on this to take with you to London, so
that you could rind out what the reaction there
would be, and that you would also ask Air Marshal
Harris to mention the matter to Stettinius.
Yours sincerely,
(sgd)    W. G. HAYTER.
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