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March 30, 1943
CONFIDENTIAL
Dear George:
Ever so many thanks for your letter of March the twenty-eighth. It was good of you to write, for I know how overwhelmed you must be.
I thought you would like to know that the plot is thickening.  Colonel Shoemaker has made further and more specific demands upon us.  We had an informal meeting of the Committee on Sunday evening and are hard at work, and hope to have the frist fruits in his hands in a week or ten days.  What they want is exactly what I described to you in my last letter, but covering a greater number of countries.  One additional thing, however, which they are demanding is a list of people in the various services who might be useful in applying any measures of safeguarding or conservation.  Whether this is a prelude to the formation of some kind of conservation corps, it is impossible to say.  It suggests, however, that the military government people are at least thinking in that direction.  It may well be, therefore, that as things develop, you will yet find yourself yanked out and put in charge of the whole thing.
Yours ever,

Lieutenant George L. Stout
220 R Street, N. W.
Washington
District of Columbia