‘Keen to Foul Their Own Nests’: Contemporary and Historical Criticism of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence of 1940
On 17 August 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt met with Canada’s Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in the town of Ogdensburg, which lies just across the Canadian border in upstate New York. There the two leaders agreed on the formation of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) to advi...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ae3d196c9f134b46b36f40926496496a 2023-05-15T17:33:37+02:00 ‘Keen to Foul Their Own Nests’: Contemporary and Historical Criticism of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence of 1940 Galen Roger Perras 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2021v36.003 https://doaj.org/article/ae3d196c9f134b46b36f40926496496a EN eng UCL Press https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2021v36.003 https://doaj.org/toc/2397-0928 doi:10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2021v36.003 2397-0928 https://doaj.org/article/ae3d196c9f134b46b36f40926496496a The London Journal of Canadian Studies (2022) America E11-143 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2021v36.003 2022-12-30T21:02:46Z On 17 August 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt met with Canada’s Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in the town of Ogdensburg, which lies just across the Canadian border in upstate New York. There the two leaders agreed on the formation of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) to advise on policies for the defence and security of the North American continent. The PJBD was commended on all sides, in public at least, not only in the United States and Canada but also in Britain, where the new prime minister, Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons on 20 August, compared the trend towards growing cooperation between the British Empire and the United States to the relentless flow of the Mississippi river. He also referred approvingly to the Permanent Joint Board in his post-war Fulton speech, delivered on 5 March 1946, as an important element in the ‘special relationship’ between the British Empire and the United States. Later commentators, including John Bartlet Brebner, have also seen the Joint Board as a significant part of the ‘North Atlantic Triangle’. However, as this article shows, the PJBD has also attracted plenty of criticism – both contemporary and historical. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Canada Fulton ENVELOPE(-144.900,-144.900,-76.883,-76.883) London Journal of Canadian Studies 36 1 |
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On 17 August 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt met with Canada’s Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in the town of Ogdensburg, which lies just across the Canadian border in upstate New York. There the two leaders agreed on the formation of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) to advise on policies for the defence and security of the North American continent. The PJBD was commended on all sides, in public at least, not only in the United States and Canada but also in Britain, where the new prime minister, Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons on 20 August, compared the trend towards growing cooperation between the British Empire and the United States to the relentless flow of the Mississippi river. He also referred approvingly to the Permanent Joint Board in his post-war Fulton speech, delivered on 5 March 1946, as an important element in the ‘special relationship’ between the British Empire and the United States. Later commentators, including John Bartlet Brebner, have also seen the Joint Board as a significant part of the ‘North Atlantic Triangle’. However, as this article shows, the PJBD has also attracted plenty of criticism – both contemporary and historical. |
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‘Keen to Foul Their Own Nests’: Contemporary and Historical Criticism of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence of 1940 |
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