Open Defensive Alliance with U.S.A. Seen; Hitler's "Biockade" Shows Difficulties of Air Siege New York, Sept. 10.
TPHE agreement between President Roosevelt and Mr. Mackenzie King Prime Minister of Canada for a joint defence board would seem to open the wa, for-an eventual defensive alliance with Canada if the two nations should wish to enter into such a pact, writes Real Admiral Yates Stirling, ju USN, (retd.).
The President and the Prime Minister for the present apparently intend to limit their military cooperation to exchanges of information and the formulation of joint defence plans by repre~ sentatives of the armed forces of each country.
There is a great deal of work te be done and in my judgment it is of first importance that we have recon ined the fact and at last are on the way {o substitute intelligent advance planning for precipitate and unplanned action which has caused us many diMeuties in the past.
To envisage what the joint board Iveady is facing in its study of tual sea, land and ale defence problems, one has only to took at map. Geographically Canada is a part of the Uniled States so far as matters of defence are concerned, and our military leaders have long recognized that fact
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