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voice being the unison of many"-- the intention being 
to get more voices in the "unison." One exponent of the 
plan has said:
 
     "Complete coordination of. foreign policies is 
    perhaps too much to expect. But the British Gov-
    ernment should cultivate the habit of consulting 
    as regularly with Paris, Brussels, the Hague,
    Copenhagen and Oslo as it already does with Ottawa, 
    Canberra, Wellington and Pretoria. And in the one 
    case as in the other such consultation will almost 
    always result in an agreed policy."
 
      In addition to establishing a common foreign policy
it has been pointed out by those favoring the plan that
in the field of strategy the war has shown how many other
different forms of collaboration it is possible to achieve
without an official statement of sovereignty. They cite
the Combined Chiefs of Staff now linking the American and
British Forces as an example, and state that something
like it might be reproduced in a more permanent form to
insure the strategic unity of Western Europe. They also
note the Combined Boards -- each dealing Jointly with a
specific problem - finance, transport, supplies, produc-
tion, resources, raw materiels, etc. They point out too
that types of weapons might be standardized, as could
instruction in staff colleges -- thereby building up a
"staff mind".
    
      The possibilities of collaboration in the economic 
field are discussed in more vague terms -- most probably 
because considerable opposition would doubtless develop 
both at home and abroad. The potentialities, however, are 
great. A customs union is suggested -- presumably an ex-
tension of Imperial Preference -- and one author states:
 
          "The creation of such a union- a unified 
    market of 115,000,000 people not counting any
    of their colonial dependencies - would be an 
    immense benefit to its members and to the world
    at large." 
 
Currency agreements are spoken of, and civil aviation is 
cited as a field in which the countries have a community
 
                                                of interest.