Australia Prepares for Emergency
(Received 11.0 a.m.) SYDNEY. July CO
The creation of a national emergency co-ordination committee, representing all Government departments and special committees associated with national planning, was announced by the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies. The new Body will be called the Standing Committee on Co-ordination of Inter-Departmental Action on the Outbreak of War. Its duties will be to elaborate the system for co-ordinating the action of the defence services. Commonwealth departments and State Government activities on the occurrence of strained relations or the outbreak of war. The Minister of Defence. Mr G. A. Street, said the committee would be the supreme over-riding authority in the event of war.
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Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 8
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