Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1944, The Near East, South Asia, and Africa, The Far East, Volume V

890.0146/10

The Director of the Office of European Affairs (Dunn) to the Director of the Civil Affairs Division, War Department (Hilldring)⁵³

Washington, May 15, 1944.

My Dear General Hilldring: In reference to a list of questions bearing upon your planning, training, and organization for civil affairs administration in certain Far East and Pacific areas, which you and Captain Pence sent to me under date of February 18, I am enclosing herewith three sets of twenty-one papers prepared as answers to most of these questions.⁵⁴ These papers contain both discussion and recommendations on certain of the questions in so far as they relate to Japan, the Japanese Mandated Islands, Korea and Manchuria. The papers have been prepared by interested officers of the Department, have received careful consideration by the appropriate authorities, and have been approved by the Department.

The enclosed papers do not include answers to certain questions relating to Thailand, and to financial and economic matters. The Department is continuing to study the questions on Thailand.

The financial and economic questions involve numerous purely technical considerations, in which other agencies beside the Department are intimately concerned. It is recognized, however, that a number of policy decisions must be made by the Department of State in order to provide the bases on which such technical questions may be decided. The Department is now engaged in studies of these financial and economic problems.

We shall advise you as soon as final action is taken in the Department on the questions not covered by the enclosed. In the meantime, if there are further questions upon which you would like the comments of the State Department, I hope you will feel free to call upon us.

With regards to the enclosed sets of papers, many of the problems presented therein will be under constant review by the Department and will be examined in the light of changing conditions. As new decisions on these matters are reached, I will endeavor to inform you accordingly.

I am sending a similar letter with a set of the enclosed documents to Captain Pence.

Sincerely yours,

James Clement Dunn

53. Similar letter, with enclosures, sent to Capt. H. L. Pence, Navy Department.

54. The first paper, PWC–107, was a copy of the War-Navy questionnaire dated February 18, p. 1190, with parenthetical notations of PWC documents in reply. For texts of the other twenty papers, see pp. 1198, 1202, 1207–1223, 1224–1231, 1235–1242, and 1247–1260.

    Copies of memorandum of May 9 (PWC–152b), p. 1257, were also transmitted to General Hilldring and Captain Pence on May 15.