THE WAR CABINET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1942, Page 4

THE WAR CABINET

DIRECTION OF POLICY ATTITUDE OF DOMINION. EXPLANATION BY MR CHURCHILL (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.28 a.m.) RUGBY, February 5. Asked when the new Imperial War Cabinet or directorate would begin to - function and if it had yet been decided who should be its members, Mr Churchill said: “The proposals which I referred to in my statement the other . day, on the association of Dominion representatives and the War Cabinet, did not involve any change in the United Kingdom membership of the War Cabinet. The proposal of the Australian Government was that they could have a representative on the War Cabinet and have the right to be heard in the formation and direction of its policy. I am advised that we were in agreement with the proposals and in fact, for a good many months past, Sir Earle Page had been exercising these rights. We have informed the Governments of Canada, New Zealand and South Africa that the same facilities are available io them if they wish to take advantage of them. We have not yet had any reply from New Zealand and I understand that the Governments of Canada and South Africa are satisfied with the existing arrangements of consultation and expressed themselves most strongly in that sense and do not at present wish to attach special representatives to the War Cabinet.”