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Show Allies facing ; . GREAT TM; Member of British War Cabinet Cabi-net Warns People of Hardships Hard-ships Ahead. FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM Supreme War Council Permanent Per-manent Body of Experts Constantly Studying War Problems. LONDON, Thursday. Feb. 21. Allied Al-lied co-operation and co-ordination on all efforts on national salvation aro two essential conditions for making use of tho resources of the Allies, Viscount Vis-count Milner, member of the war cabinet, cab-inet, declared in a speech at Plymouth today. "There Is but one answer to the German Ger-man challenge," he said, "and I will not conceal what that answer Involves. In-volves. "Great and wonderful as have been tho efforts and endurance of tho British Brit-ish nation during the past three and a half years, we must be prepared for greater efforts and hardships in the immediate future but the more fiercely fierce-ly the storm rages tho higher the spirit of the nation will rise. There aro two essential conditions for using our great resources to tho full. Perfect Co-ordination Required. "First, more perfect co-ordination of effort by all the Allies. Second, maintenance within tho borders of each Allied nation of unity of spirit and purpose, suppression of domestic discord and tho concentration of all efforts on one supremo object national nation-al salvation." Lord Milner contrasted the recent Allied conferences he had attended with those of a year ago and said they were more businesslike and something like reasonable machinery for attaining attain-ing perfect co-ordination was being obtained. The supreme war council at Versailles was a permanent body of experts always sitting together and always al-ways engaged in tho study of war problems from tho viewpoint of the alliance as a whole. The Allies, he declared, were fighting fight-ing for their lives and tho existence of tho free nations of westorn Europe until peace negotiations aro reached. |