Canadian-U.S. defense is being geared to a new peacetime concept: a coordinated arms program. For a start, Canada has plans to manufacture U.S.-type planes for both the R.C.A.F. and the U.S. Air Force. If that works out, the idea can be extended to guns (which both would make), tanks (U.S.-made), patrol craft and antisub boats (Canada-made).
The program has been in the works since Minister of Trade & Commerce Clarence Decatur Howe broached it to top U.S. brass in Washington last summer. The first step was to get the approval of the National...
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