The matter, however, is more than geographical, and if the joint board to render the greatest service, it will have (o consider industrial ea operation, Joint planning in such matters ay ansportation andi the placing of wiv fields, thi electric power and Kindred n Fortunately, American relations. with Canada'have always been extremely close and friendly. The two countries have a common political viewpoint on many questions: and in narly ways their interests are reeiproval and non-competitive.
Germany's attacks on Britain ave increasing in intensity and it is entively within the realm of possibility that Canada may find her world posi-ion affected by the present tervifie tacks on the British Tsles.
may be significant the Roosevelt-Mackenzie King agreement followed the declaration by Germany of {otal blockade of the Bi Isles and unlimited sea and air warfare all about Britain with the exception of Irish territorial waters.
Situation Regularized, this. declaration, one would judge. is designed fo put Germany within the rules of international law by warning neutrals that mines will be strewn in certain steamship Ianes and that the Germans will attack every ship that enters the blockade zone.
In point of fact, the German an-ouncement merely regularizes a situation which has prevailed for some time, for the Germans began sinking neutral ships in British waters, soon after the war started. It may be that Adolf Hiller now wishes to convey the idea that he has the upper liliand and that his siege will soon subdue the British.
Nothing in. the struggle between the {wo great belligerents, however, has been altered by the doctoration for both have been ednducting total war in which the rights of neutrals got little consideration,
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