"NO BOUNDARY EXISTS”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 31 December 1941, Page 7

"NO BOUNDARY EXISTS”

CANADA AND UNITED STATES JOINT CLANS FOR DEFENCE Ottawa. Dec. 23. . In ever-growing measure Canada and 1 ihe United States are integrating their | war policies in an all-out effort for ( The raw materials of botli countries I are in effect to be pooled under the re- ! commendations of the joint War Pro- ( duction Committee —recommendations adopted at Washington and Ottawa alike—and so allocated between the two . countries as to ensure maximum war I production irrespective of national boundaries. The military, air and naval plans pre- j pared by the Joint Defence Board are ! now in satisfactory operation. Follow- i ing 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 Min- i ister of Canada in August, 1940. Under! its recommendations the defence plans of both countries were co-ordinated. : In the West Canada built a string of I staging aerodromes so that both Cana- ' dian and United States military planes j can meet any Japanese threat to nor- ! them British Columbia and Alaska 1 without delay. In the East Canadian and United States troops serve in Newfoundland together. Canada and the United States are in 1 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, j At sea Canadian and United Stalest navies seek out Axis submarines. After the Ogdensburg Agreement came the Hyde Park Declaration in April, 1941, which laid down the principle of the economic interdependence ' of Canada and the United States as j the foundation of war production in both countries. The declaration was is- i sued follow ing conversations between ! President Roosevelt and Prime Minister i Mackenzie King at the President’s home, Hyde Park. New' York. As a sequel to the Declaration joint j committees were formed on— I <a) Economic questions. (b> War production. <c) Co-ordination of materials. 1 The work of these committees is now | bearing fruit. TRADE BARRIERS I DUMPING DUTIES LIFTED Ot l awa, Dec. 23. The dumping duty is lifted. On the • recommendation of the Wartime Prices ■ and Trade Board an Order-in-Council ■ has been passed providing—(l) Imposition of special or dumping duties on imported goods suspended. [ For the time being such duties will apply only to fruits and vegetables. : '2) The Minister of National Revenue, the Hon. C. W. G. Gibson, has been authorised to assess Customs duties on invoice value of goods imported from ’ countries other than the United Kingdom where such action is recommended ; by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. This concession was granted to : the United Kingdom last April. It is explained that the purpose of > the Orders-in-Council is to help inainL tain the price ceiling and remove some i of the trade barriers between nations • fighting the Axis. Under the second • order the Custom? duty on imported l goods may now' be calculated on the . actual invoice value rather than on the . “fair market value” for home consumption in the country of origin.