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[Letter] 1949 June 11 [to] Francis E. Walter, Washington, D.C. / C.L. Chennault.
The letter is typed on Claire Lee Chennault letterhead. See also Walter's biography and a guide to research collections of his papers (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000108). See also additional letters in the collection to Walter.
Chennault encloses a copy of his notes on China due to the importance of the "Communist conquest of China to the welfare of the United States." Chennault prepared these notes from his twelve years of "intimate observation," as a private citizen, impelled by the belief that the "communization of China gravely threatens the peace and security of our own country." A fighter pilot and author of _The Role of Defensive Pursuit_ (1935), Chennault was an advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek from 1937 through World War II, receiving China's highest honor for his service in training the Chinese air force to co
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