‘Future plays will depend on how the next one works’: Franklin Roosevelt and the Canadian Legation Discussions of January 1938

Dr. Galen Perras received his PhD at the University of Waterloo. His research interests include 20th Century US Military History, Canadian-American relations, and the Second World War in the Pacific. His publications include Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy 1867-1945 (UBC Press, 2003); Franklin Roosevelt and the Origins of the Canadian-American Security Alliance: Necessary But Not Necessary Enough (Praeger, 1998); and articles published in The Northern Mariner, War & Society, Journal of Military History, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, The Canadian Journal of History, The Journal of American and Canadian History, and several edited monographs.