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Show development, w are bom naturally, friendly and in key with one another, and our geographical geo-graphical and economic relationihipa thruit us one upon the other in to emphatic way that any but the most friendly relation! would be ridiculous. ri-diculous. . Often we take this relationship for granted, so accustomed to it have we become. We strive to improve relations with Mexico, Central and South America, which is eminently proper. But we are apt to take Canada for granted, and she us. We seldom think about the interweaving of destlnv that is drawing Irresistibly together I the two great countries. When President Roosevelt Roose-velt gsve renewed assursnce that the United Ststes stood ready to defend Canada against any foreign invasion, nobody wss much surprised. sur-prised. He only said what everybody knew would be the case in practice anyway. Obviously, neither country could feel ssfe if a foreign force got a foothold in the other. What Pacific war could be imagined that would not concern Canada equally with the United States? International affairs, especially those of the last 20 years, have been putting the two countries, even more emphatically than they have put all the American countries, into the same boat It would not be at all surprising to see Csnada some dsy a participant in Pan-American Conference Con-ference from whih her atalua an empira dominion has hitherto barred her. But we also sometimes forget that the trad between the United States and Canada is 3 per cent of sll world trsde, and greater than that between any other two countries. While U. S. exports to China In 1137 were under 90 millions, Canada was taking more than 500 millions in American goods. She was meanwhile sending bsck about 400 millions. And this apparently unfavorable balance was more than mad up by U. S. tourist traffic going Into Canada, estimated esti-mated for 1938 at ISO millions. One-third of all U. S. foreign long-term investments in-vestments are in Canada, nearly four billions, but that is no one-wsy affair, for Canada has invested in-vested at least billion in the United States. So closely interwoven a relationship as this needs no political ties, and no formal alliances to emphasize em-phasize that the two great countries are growing grow-ing closer as each year passes, and that in respect re-spect to certain phases of foreign relations they are, and must be, one. Under Common Bond r paraphrase Master Shakespeare, som countries achieve amity with their neighbors, neigh-bors, some are born friendly, and som hive a peaceful relationship thrust upon them. But In the relstions between the United State and Canada, Can-ada, both are fortunat in being bound by all three conditions. We hsve achieved mutually cordial relations by 100 yean of their conscious |