BAS                                   London
This telegram must be
closely paraphrased. be-             Dated December 27, 1941
fore being communicated 
to anyone. (B)                        Rec'd 11:23 p.m.
 
Secretary of State,
 
     Washington
 
     6234, December 27, 7 a.m.   (SECTION SIX)
 
and action can be rapidly agreed and taken.  The 
 
liaison officers also meet regularly  under
 
the chairmanship of the chief officer.  This affords 
 
a means of pooling, detailed information and dis-
 
posing shortly of minor matters which would often 
 
otherwise waste considerable time in correspondence 
 
between departments.  It is particulary, successful 
 
in dealing with false reports and ill-founded 
 
suspicions or proposals which in security and 
 
intelligence matters are continually reaching 
 
authorities from official and unofficial 
 
quarters.
 
     Principles on which the executive works.
     
     In this way the executive has covered in 
 
the eighteen months of its operation every aspect 
 
of security, in Great Britain and many questions of 
 
security overseas.  In so doing it has aiming at 
 
assessing the true importance of each apprehended 
 
danger and at maintaining a just balance between 
 
                                        security