The appointment of M. Jean Monnet as chairman of the
Anglo-French Co-ordinating Committee, which is to organise the whole of the joint Allied effort in the economic field is admirable. Actually M. Monnet was more responsible than any other single man for carrying the preliminary stages of the agreement through. There conld be no one better fitted to preside over the raising of the edifice for which that was only the foundation. Short, dapper, quick in mind and movement, M. Monnet is an admirable example of the suc- cessful business man (ask at Cognac who Jean Monnet is) turned public servant. After active administrative work in the Great War, he helped Sir Eric Drummond to build the League of Nations machine, being himself Under-Secretary General, and latterly he has been giving valuable help to the Chinese Government as financial adviser. He has a person- ality made for co-operation.
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