POOL RESOURCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 8

POOL RESOURCES.

ALLIED MUNITIONS.

Cordial Meeting Between

Ministers.

" FRANCO-BRITISH UNION." British Official Wirel?se. (Receive 2 p.m.) RVGBY, January 18. The French Minister for Armament, M. Dautry, has been in London for consultations with the British Minister of Supply, Mr. Leslie Burgin, and to-day the two Ministers received the Press. Their statements showed that agreement had been readied on a pool of manufacturing resources, and practical details had been worked out down to arrangements for interchange across the Channel of jigs and machine tools.

M. Dautry emphasised that his meeting with Mr. Biirgin was the occasion for "exchanges of view"' and "establishing identity of outlook.' . They were out for action—and thev had acted.

"Franop and Britain, having pooled their military forces, economic wealth and financial means, by agreements made by the Premiers and Finance Min intern, Mr. Burjiin and I have combined our science laboratories, our technical resources, our machines and our labour," he said. "All this has been done without a shadow of discord or difficult v.

"There are no longer any secrets or any frontiers between us. Can one, under such circumstances, speak of collaboration? I should prefer to speak of Franco-]?ritish union."