Dear Mr. Tibbetts,
/ I apologise for taking so long
* far      to answer your letter of October lUth. The
r reason was that some of your questions
required looking up, and that the problems
they raised were also a little difficult to
answer.
You will probably not expect me to
discuss in detail the general points which
you raise in the last three pages of your
letter.     It is very interesting to me to have
this expression of your point of view, and I
may say that I personally am in agreement with
practically everything you say.   But I think
that what you would like me to do is to
answer the practical questions raised on the
first page of your letter.
First of all, you ask where you would
be most useful, or whether you would be more
bother than you were worth.    The answer to the
second half of this question is emphatically in
the negative.   As regards the first part, it
depends very much on your individual capacities,
and 1 suppose I can only say that you would be
most useful in the job which you yourself think
you can do best.    Our greatest reea at present
is, I think, for pilots, but this does not mean
that there is not need in other spheres.
To explcin what I meant about technical
qualifications, I enclose two copies of a
pamphlet about the Civilian Technical Corps
(1/
Mr. Norris Tibbetts,
Eliot B-ll,
Cambridge,
i .'.assachusetts* WGH:HK
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2
(I car let you have some more if you want
them).   You will see from this that your
kind of training would perhaps be rather
v/asted in the Civilian Technical Corps as
at present constituted, since its object
is to recruit skilled craftsmen rather than
people with higher qualifications.   As I
said in my letter to Mr. Ordway, we are
thinking of modifying this, but unfortunately
no decision has yet been taken.
Finally, you ask whether there are
any services which women volunteers could
perform in Kngland.    The information we have
at present is that there are no such services;
we are told, for instance, that there is no
lack of trained nurses, and we have not been
allowed to encourage women volunteers to go
to Kngland at present.    I arn afraid that to
raise this question now would only complicate
the issue.
Many thankB again for writing to me.
If there is any further information I can
supply, I should be very glad to do so.
Yours sincerely,
.V. G. Hayter,
secretary.