VICTORY EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1941, Page 8

VICTORY EFFORT

CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

EVER-INCREASING CO-OPERATION.

OTTAWA, December 23.

In ever-growing measure, Canada and the United States are integrating their war policies in an all-out effort for victory. The raw materials of both countries are in effect to be pooled under the recommendations of the joint War Production Committee—recommendations adopted at Washington and Ottawa alike —and so allocated between the two countries as to ensure maximum war production irrespective of national boundaries.

The military, air and naval plans prepared by the Joint Defence Board are now in satisfactory operation. Following its last meeting, the Defence Board announced that in the operation and execution of the joint defence plans “no boundary exists.” The Joint Defence Board arose from the Ogdensburg Agreement between President Roosevelt and the Prime Minister of Canada in August, 1940. Under its recommendations the defence plans of both countries were co-ordin-ated. In the West, Canada built a string of staging aerodromes so that both Canadian and United States military planes can meet any Japanese threat to northern British Columbia and Alaska without delay. In the East, Canadian and United States troops serve in Newfoundland together. Canada and the United States are in full agreement over the defence measures of Greenland. . Canada has built defensive aerodromes in Labrador and other parts of the North. Both United States and Canadian troops are on guard in the West Indies. At sea. Canadian and United States navies seek out Axis submarines. After the Ogdensburg Agreement came the Hyde Park Declaration in April, 1941, which laid down the principle of economic interdependence of Canada and the United States as the foundation of war production in both countries. The declaration was issued following conversations between President Roosevelt and Prime. Minister Mackenzie King at the President’s home. Hyde Park, N.Y.

As a sequel to the Declaration, joint committees were formed on: (a) economic- questions; (b) war production; (c) co-ordination of materials.

The work of these committees is now bearing fruit.