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Jim Callahan is beginning to make some progress on the orthopedic
,history, Oscar Hampton arrived a few days ago, went on his leave, and
s twill return to colloborate with Jim on this section, He has a considerable
· part of his material in excellent shape and the completion of this work
should not be too difficult. He also brought with him copies of the
“monographs“ which Churchill has organized and prepared, He stated that
Churchill will arrive sometime around the 20th to the 25th of the month,
It is apparent that Churchill has some ideas regarding these "monographs"
but I suppose we must await his arrival to learn his real intentions in
this matter. r ’  
I had Colonel Condiit Cutler come here for one day to discuss his I
assignment on the preparation of the hand section for the history. We
considered the various questions he had raised in his letter to you on
this matter and developed a working program which he would follow in col-
lecting source material and in approaching the problem. I am very much
impressed with the way he works. In this connection, he recently submitted
his report of his activities as a Service Command Consultant for the his- i
tory and I donlt see how it can be excelled. I am wondering now if he
would not have been a better selection than John Flick as sub—ed1tor of
this section.
I p I recently received a rather childish letter_from Mather Cleveland
informing me that he would like to come here on l November for a period
of 2 months to write the orthopedic history (although he didn*t see how
he could do it 1n such a short period of time) and asking me to send him
his orders as a Civilian Consultant. He added, too, that he had not had
time to obtain some civilian clothes and, therefore, would like for me to
arrange it so that he could wear his Army un1form.‘ I suppose this might
_ _ be done by dying his uniform blue. Do you think the condition has pro-
gressed to the point where it deserves reference to Bill Menlngeri
Seriously, though, I'm in a spot on this and I need your advice. I don‘t
want to hurt his feelings and yet I don*t think it is wise to have him
ordered here. I
I find that my time is being taken up with so much administrative
and personnel matters that I am able to devote very little of it to the I
history. This has disturbed me so much that I am beginning to worry E
about it. I have tried in every way possible to dispose of these matters `
I but it seems practically impossible. More and more people are constantly
streaming through the office and I have not yet gotten to the point where Q
I can be rude. Besides, I doubt that it would work. ‘ §
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Personnel ls still the major problem and the interesting paradox is d
that although we still have some ¤§,OOO doctors in service all the Ser- E
vice Command surgeons and C.O.'s are crying about their shortages. You E
can readily see that confusion still reigns supreme and will probably con- é
tinue to do so until the last man is out. In this connection, the office g