I saw some influential Colonel . I heard, & tried to ascertain my best move to make, but they told me that if the War Office postponed[?] my name out they could certainlt give no information as to the reason. Well I thought the reason over & came to the conclusion that that cursed Staff course was at the bottom of it, & that I was either being kept here for intentional purposes or a damned staff job here. The only other alternative was that the 2nd [?] [?] for which I had been wooned[?], was full up, & my name had been picked out, or that some pal of the powers that be had came along & wanted to get in at the last moment & some ones name had been chosen at random to be marched[?] off the list, & mine was the unfortunate one. I then went to the Commadant of the Canadian military school (where I took the Staff Course) & asked him if he knew why I had been cancelled, he said he didn't. I then asked him if I was peing held back for intentional [?], because if so, I wasn't going to do it. I said I'd be sanpieord[?] first. Her said they didn't want any more instructors that they had very strongly recom mended me for field work. I've had several days to think things over and behind was that the the reason was that the 2nd ChalR[?] had more than their 14 supervising officers & so I got knocked off through that.