"WE ARE AS ONE"

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1940, Page 6

"WE ARE AS ONE"

One of the best things that has come out of the present war is the close relations between Britain and France. The two nations are working together in the common cause more intimately after five months of war than they did even at the end of over four years of the Great War. The statesmen of both nalions have dwelt with sober enthusiasm on this fact and its vital importance to the conduct of the war as well as its happy augury for a permanent friendship afterwards. So Mr. Chamberlain, speaking as British Prime Minister in the House of Commons of the work of the joint

War Council, a meeting of which he had attended in Paris last Monday, recalled the statement of the French Premier, M. Daladier, that the Council now conducted its business "almost as if it were the Cabinet of a single Government." The bond between Britain and France has grown to be something greater than even the close alliance which a common purpose and common dangers could enforce. It is a tribute to the calibre of the men on both sides and their tact and wisdom that this happy result has been achieved so soon. To Herr Hitler and his associates, who have striven so hard to sow dissension between France and Britain, it must be a bitter disappointment to hear repeated the testimony of the French representatives on the War Council to their British colleagues: "We are as one." There could be no better augury of victory to the Allies.