BLOCKADE CAMPAIGN
CLOSE CO-OPERATION BRITAIN AND FRANCE LONDON DISCUSSIONS (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2.45 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 11. M Georges Pernot, the French Minister of Blockade, has been in London on two days’ visit. He was accompanied by M. Charles Rist, chairman of the consultative committee to the Ministry of Blockade, and M. De La Laume, head of the department in the Ministry. From the very beginning of the war the Ministry of Economic Warfare has worked in the fullest co-opera-tion with the corresponding' French authorities and a French liaison mission of 20 officials, headed by M. Paul Morand is permanently established in the Ministry of Economic Warfare. 'More recently France created a special Ministry of Blockade in Paris and M. Pernot’s visit Lo London to confer with the British Minister of Economic Warfare, Mr. H. Cross, has enabled the two Ministers to review the progress so far achieved and to concert still closer the measures of policy for the future. M. Pernot and his advisers left for Paris this afternoon.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 11
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