Equipment for Foreign Governments: War Office Working Party

A file of correspondence, memoranda, and meeting minutes discussing the creation of a War Office working party to oversee the sending of British equipment to foreign armed forces after the Second World War. Subjects discussed in this document include the equipping of the armed forces of several nations, including Norway, Denmark, and France, to take part in the occupation of Germany; military coordination and liaison between the British army and these allied forces; a list of definite and tentative allied military commitments to the occupation of Germany; a debate over whether the British should equip the Czechoslovakian armed forces to try to prevent the country from falling under Soviet domination; a discussion of the financial arrangements for equipment being sent to the French; and arrangements for the creation and operation of the War Office working party.