Joint Statement Issued at Ogdenburg, 1940

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Joint Statement Issued at Ogdenburg (Ogdenburg Agreement), August 18, 1940

Nach einer Unterredung zwischen Präsident Roosevelt und dem kanadischen Premierminister Mackenzie King am 17. August 1940 in Ogdenburg, N.Y., beschlossen die Regierungschefs die Zusammenarbeit in der Verteidigung Nordamerikas.


Department of State Bulletin, August 24, 1940, p.154 The Prime Minister and the President have discussed the mutual problems of defense in relation to the safety of Canada and the United States. It has been agreed that a Permanent Joint Board on Defense shall be set up at once by the two countries. This Permanent Joint Board on Defense shall commence immediate studies relating to sea, land and air problems including personnel and materiel. It will consider in the broad sense the defense of the north half of the Western Hemisphere. The Permanent Joint Board on Defense will consist of four or five members from each country, most of them from the services. It will meet shortly.
Quelle: Bevans, Charles I., ed., Treaties and other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949, vol. 6, Canada-Czechoslovakia, (Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1968-76), 189.