In fact, measures already have been taken to ce-ordinate purchases of arms, munitions and planes in, Canada and ' the United States, Anglo-French purchases in the Dominion will be handled by the Canadian War Supply Board and in the United States by missions already there working under a special committee, over which Mr, Arthur Lervis will preside, At aby time that the Allied Governments deem it necessary, their Ministers will hold "councils" either in Paris or London while the Supreme War Council will continue to deal with problems of general policy, British political quarters remarked today that Mr. Nickells, private secretary to the Director-General of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, conferred both on Friday and Saturday with M, Georges Pernot, the French Blockade Minister, and other officials. of the Blockade Ministry. The statesmen, it was understood today, sought to align the British Order-in-Council, expected on Tuesday, which will formally place an embargo on German exports, and a similar Freħch decree, They also discussed instructions which are to be sent to British and French consular agents abroad as.soon as the two decrees are published to assure complete ce-operation in economic warfare on all fronts, 'A participant in the conversations was M, Paul Morand, prominent French writer and head of the French Economic Warfare Mission here in London,
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