ABSTRACT
The preparations for the session had been thorough, for the Permanent Military Representatives, the Inter-Allied General Staff of the Supreme War Council, had compiled careful and unanimous reports on most of the questions to be discussed. On the principle all the soldiers and statesmen present were agreed, but important points had been left for the decision of the Supreme War Council, including the question of the command. The Commanders-in-Chief of the various national armies were instructed to prepare their plans on this basis and to forward them to the Supreme War Council in order to ensure their co-ordination. For the first time since the beginning of the war a definite co-ordinated plan had been drawn up by a joint Inter-Allied Staff, and then discussed, in the presence of the Commanders-in-Chief and Chiefs of Staff, by the statesmen who exercised the Supreme Command in Britain, France and Italy.
