DEFENCE SERVICES
CO-ORDINATION PLAN IN AUSTRALIA.
OVERRIDING AUTHORITY IN EVENT OF WAR.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY. July 30.
The creation of a national emergency co-ordination committee representing all Government departments and the special committees associated with national planning was announced by the Prime Minister. Mr Menzies. The new body will be called the Standing Committee on the Co-ordina-tion of Interdepartmental Action on the Outbreak of War.
Its duties will be to elaborate a system for co-ordinating defence service, Commonwealth departments and the State Government activities on the occurence of strained relations or the outbreak of war. The Minister of Defence, Mr Street, said that the committee would be the supreme over-riding authority in the event of war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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117DEFENCE SERVICES Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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