JOINT BOARD
AMERICAN & CANADIAN DEFENCE PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED. FIRST MEETING ON MONDAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, August 23. President Roosevelt announced the appointment of six United States representatives on the joint United Statcs-Canadian Defence Board. He also gave the names of the Canadian members as designated by the Prime Minister. Mr Mackenzie King. The United States representatives are: The Mayor of New York. Mr La Guardia: Lieutenant-General Stanley S. Embrick, commandant of the fourth corps area. Atlanta. Georgia: Captain Harry W. Hill, of the navy war plans division: Mr John D. Hickerson, assistant chief the State Department’s division of European affairs; Captain Forrest P. Sherman, of the navy war plans division; Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph McNarney, of the army air corps. Captain Sherman and Colonel McNarney together represent a single scat. They will also alternate in the absence of any oilier member. The Canadian representatives arc: Mr O. M. Biggar. K.C.; Brigadier K. Stuart, deputy chief of the General staff; Captain L. W. Murray, deputychief of the naval staff; Air Commander A. A. L. Cutie. of the Royal Canadian Air Force: Mr Hugh L. Kennlcyside. counsellor in the Department of External Affairs. Mr Kennleyside will be secretary of the Canadian section and Mr Hickerson secretary of the United States section. The joint board will meet for the first time on August 26.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1940, Page 5
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