Supreme War Council

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 503 words | Copyright

Supreme War Council, the Anglo-French co-ordinating committee which oversaw Anglo-French strategy before and during the fall of France in June 1940, but which had no operational powers. It first met at Abbeville on 12 September 1939. The last meeting took place near Tours on 13 June 1940 when British representatives included Churchill, Dill, and Beaverbrook, and French representatives included Reynaud, Pétain, and de Gaulle who had just been made under-secretary for National Defence.

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