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and in wartime planning assumptions.

Personnel have been nominated

for all key posts in the DSA and have received training in their

wartime roles.

PBOS

operation of the DSA.

continues to make preparations for the

5 below).

4 The NATO pool (paragraph

(paragraph 1 above) would comprise all ocean-

going merchant ships (broadly 1600 grt and above) brought under

national control by member governments (by requisition or otherwise)

except limited categories that

that could be excluded (see paragraph

The pool would in addition to Alliance-flag shipping

include flagged-out shipping brought under national control by

member governments as well as possibly neutral tonnage on long-term

charters. The pool would also include ships controlled by those

participating directly in the allied

allied effort.

non-NATO countries

5 It has been agreed

agreed that

individual governments could as an

exceptional measure withhold certain ships from the pool in order

to meet their immediate defence and coastal shipping requirements

provided that such exceptions were not

not contrary to the general

objectives of the DSA. The following categories of ships could

so be withheld for defence purposes:

a.

ships which were used in peace-time for naval purposes

as fleet auxiliaries;

b.

merchant-type ships with appropriate physical character-

istics which were required to be taken

taken up

up from trade at or

shortly before the outbreak of hostilities for immediate use

to, specialised wartime naval or military

on, or conversion

service;

C.

merchant-type ships required for the extensive and rapid

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