ALLIED CO-OPERATION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20242, 9 May 1940, Page 5

ALLIED CO-OPERATION

ECONOMIC WAR EFFORT MILITARY SPHERE -'.'. (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, May 7. In answering a question in "the House of Commons to-day, the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, described the development in the inter-Allied organisation established to facilitate co-operation in various fields of the Allied war effort. Reminding the House of the existence of a comprehensive organisation for ensuring close Anglo-French cooperation in the economic war effort of the two countries, Mr. Chamberlain said: “The Anglo-French Co-ordinating Committee, which forms the nucleus of this organisation, has a permanent Allied chairman and a joint AngloFrench secretariat. The eight AngloFrench permanent executive committees, which function under the general guidance of the Anglo-French Co-ordinating Committee, similarly have joint secretarial arrangements. “On the military side, collaboration with the French High Command is maintained by means 'of an Allied military committee sitting permanently in London and consisting of senior officers of the three fighting services of the two countries, whose duty it is to examine military problems from an Allied point of view and submit their recommendations to theirrespective chiefs of staff.”