Manpower from U.S. : 0.208/azj. /41
29th September 1941
SECRET
My dear John,
I think you will be interested to see
the enclosed letter from Coit at the Passport
Control Office and of ray reply.   You will see
that I have suggested that he set in touch with
you with a view to seeing your list of volunteers.
In this connection I see we have just
had a lotto/- from the ConsulPte-Goneral La ITew
Yorkvenclosing a copy of the report of their
Volunteer Department for the month of August. At
the end of this report it is said "Several applicants
have been placed during the month and, if the State
Department could bo persuaded to allow American
contractors to hire British subjects, we could place
considerably more, and Defence Bases would get some
really first-rato men".   V/e c^uid quite easily take
this point up with the State Department though i
doubt if we should get much change, but it seems
a great pity that if those men are British subjects
they should not go to the United Kingdom v/here
expert constructional labourers are badly wanted.
Of course it may be that the men would not be
willing to go home.   Perhaps however you might have
a word with the Consulate-General to find out some
more details on the subject.   V/hile you are at it,
it might be no bad thing if you have a look at their
Volunteor Department and see how it works.   To judge
by their reports they seem to have set up a pretty
efficient machino.
(sgd)    P. R. HOYER MILLAR
John Poster, Ssq.,
3ritish Information Services,
30 Rockefeller Plaza,        , FRHM:HS
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