ALLIED CO-OPERATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 9

ALLIED CO-OPERATION.

ORGANISATION OUTLINED. (British Official "Wireless.) RUGBY, May 7. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Chamberlain described the development in tile inter-Allied organisation established to facilitate co-operation m the various fields of the Allied war effort. " Reminding the House of the existence of a comprehensive organisation for ensuring close Anglo-French cooperation in the economic war effort of the two countries, Mr Chamberlain said: “The Anglo-French co-ordinat-ing committee which forms the nucleus of "this organisation has a permanent Allied chairman and a joint AngloFrench secretariat. Eight AngloFrench permanent executive committees which function under the general guidance of the Anglo-French co-ordin-ating committee similarly have joint secretarial arrangements. “On the military side collaboration with the French High Command is maintained by means of an Allied military committee sitting permanently in London and consisting of senior officers of the three fighting services of the two countries, whose duty it is to examine military problems from the Allied point of view and submit their recommendations to their respective chiefs of staff.”