OF ONE MIND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1939, Page 8

OF ONE MIND

GREAT BRITAIN & FRANCE MEETING OF THE SUPREME WAR COUNCIL. MR CHAMBERLAIN ATTENDS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, December 19. An official communique issued from No. 10 ’ Downing Street states: “A meeting of the Supreme War Council was held in Paris today. The council sat throughout the morning M.M. Daladier, Guy de la Chambre, Champetier. and De Ribes, General Gamelin and Admiral Darlan represented France. Mr Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, and Lord Chatfield, who was accompanied by Sir Ronald Campbell. General Ironside and Sir Alexander Cadogan, represented Britain. In welcoming the British representatives, M Daladier congratulated Britain on the gallant, and victorious action which led to the destruction of the Acini iral Graf Spec. The Supreme War Council made a close study of the general situation and found that the British and French Governments were completely at one on all questions discussed. The Council accordingly took such decisions as were required to make the best use of the means of action at the joint disposal of the two countries, in the diplomatic and military spheres. Mr Chamberlain, in the course of his tour of the Maginot Line, at a number .of points took the salute at a march past. When the tour was completed he expressed to General Gamelin his deep gratitude for the honours paid to him and his admiration at the scale and completeness of the French defence system.