The summit's practical work included the logistics flowing to Britain, the subject on which Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook concentrated. At the same time, British and American participants expected any successor to the League of Nations to give their countries equal roles. This assumption joined immediate wartime supply needs to a much larger claim about postwar authority. Material coalition support and postwar institutional design belonged to the same conference agenda.
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Wartime supply and an equal postwar role
Beaverbrook concentrated on supplies reaching Britain while both delegations assumed their countries would share leadership of a stronger postwar organization.