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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Controls (Green)
Mr. Philip Young, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the President’s Liaison Committee, called me by telephone late this afternoon. He said that he had just concluded a very satisfactory discussion with the Chinese Purchasing Mission. He said that the Mission’s misgivings in regard to the P–40 planes, which had been caused by misinformation as to the speed of those planes and fear lest they would not be found suitable for use in the high altitudes of Western China, had been removed; that the Mission had presented a list of types of planes which it hoped to be able to purchase, and that this list had included P–40s to the number of from 50 to 100.