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Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Hamilton) of a Conversation With the First Secretary of the British Embassy (Hayter)
[Washington,] October 23, 1942.
During a call at the Department this afternoon Mr. Hayter said that in May 1942 General Chiang Kai-shek had requested that the British Government furnish some British instructors to the Chinese Air Force Staff College and this had now been done. Mr. Hayter stated that he thought that the British Air Attaché had communicated this information to the War Department. He added that the British Foreign Office had not advised the British Embassy here as to the number of British instructors in question.
M[axwell] M. H[amilton]