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officials of the appropriate French and British Departments:

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Shipping

Food

Munitions and Raw Materials

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Air Production and Supply

Coal Requirements

and others in process of formation

at the time of the collapse.

3. (Subordinate to the Co-ordinating Committee) Purchasing Missions abroad (e.g. the Anglo-

French Purchasing Mission in the United States).

(N.B. Financial arrangements, cultural collaboration, propaganda, colonial policy and development, man-power requirements, and other miscellaneous contacts were developed as needs arose; these all fell under the head of "Ministerial Councils (I.2. above), these Councils themselves emanating from the Supreme War Council.

In many cases the liaison, arrangements rapidly became highly elaborate, with ramifications of the corresponding British and French Departments closely interlocked for the conduct of day-to-day business),

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The Supreme War Council, a co-ordinating body without executive functions (hich were reserved to the two Governments), consistud, an essence, of the two Prime Ministers, together with the Ambassador of the visiting team. The attendant Ministers varied greatly, according to the agenda. The Military High Commands were almost invariably present. It was specifically laid down in the Exchange of Letters creating the Council that the British and French "Chiefs of Staff", though having only a consultative voice, had both the right and the duty to

The agenda was express their views on military matters. prepared by agreement between the two Prime Ministers. Meetings were held in England or France as convenient.

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were held as

Meetings of the two High Commands required for the purpose of perfecting plans for military action, of allocating military forces and supplies, of agreeing on proposals to be laid before the Supreme War Council, and of implementing the latter's decisions. meetings were generally held at the French G.Q.G. in France.

meeting daily, The Allied Military Committee generally in London, was the permanent joint body for planning and exchangs of military information.

These

* Owing to the differences in the organisation of the French and British High Commands the British team was the more consistent; namely, the three Supreme Commanders

The French constituting the Chiefs of Staff Committee.

team, on the other hand, consisted of one: the Chief of the General Staff for National Defence; with the Commanders-in- Chief of the French Land, Sea and Air Forces and the Chief of the Colonial General Staff, as required.

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