BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 25700, 25 January 1946, Page 9

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

GO-OPERATION OF SERVICES TRIBUTE TO ROYAL NAVY The most important aspect of America's war-time experience appears to have been overlooked* writes David Lawrence in the ' New York Suii.' It is the vital necessity of preserving the. combined chiefs of staff of Great Britain and the United States. Few people iu either country know the extent to which the armed forces oil Britain and the United States worked together iu military operations. , Few pepole know how splendidly British carrier task force Worked with the American Navy in the raids on the Japanese coast. The story remains to be told of how the British officers and crews accepted the American system of carrier operation and even American slang in their communication between ships in the Pacific; A tremendous respect for the speed with which the British learned the tactics of United States carrier task force operation has been developed among American naval officers in the Pacific. It is being urged from both British and American quarters that the two navies maintain joint manoeuvres aiid develop together in the coming years. This is a practical suggestion which does not need,a treaty or international agreement, but merely an understanding between the military or naval staffs of both countries.