07-Univ Of Chicago Roundtable Canada At War

From the NBC Newsroom in New York, President Roosevelt said in a statement today that the Japanese have attacked the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from the air. I repeat that, President Roosevelt says that the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, from the air.

This bulletin came to you from the NBC Newsroom in New York, which for two years has been at war without outfitmen. to the battle front of the world that's neighbor at war has sent men, fools, airplanes, guns, and ships.

Thirty months ago, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Mackenzie King agreed to merge the Canadian and American Defense effort through a joint defense production committee. And eight months ago, additional committees began to plan defense, to control materials, and to integrate the war and defense efforts of the two nations.

What has been Canada's effort in the war thus far? How is inflation controlled? What about labor? What lessons can the United States learn from Canada? To bring to you and other intelligent alerts citizens the answers to these and related questions, the round table opens its New York microphone to three observers who will discuss

Canada, a neighbor at war, a discussion that represents the individual views of the participants and in no way represents the views of any agency or government. participating are George Brittnell, economic advisor to the wartime prizes and trade for the Dominion of Canada and professor of economics at the University of Saskatchewan, John McCormack,

author and Canadian correspondent at the New York Times, and Neil H. Jacoby, professor of finance at the University of Chicago, at present on leave to the National Bureau of Economic Research, Mr. Jacoby. In Canada, as mentioned, I suspect that Americans, most frequently think of two things, that they, the onquent souplots, and the starlet-coated, moral Canadian-mounted police, and pictures