gambit
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Is this true...???Really juvenile.
I am not surprised with this kind of behaviour exhibited by the Americans.
During the second world war, the US wanted to shore up the defense in Alaska from the potential Japanese attacks, they decided to build a highway to facilitate the supply route. One day they just marched over with their bulldozers, military trucks, workers and army personnel to start building the road, what is now known as the Alaskan highway*. The US didn't even bothered to informed Ottawa (the Canadian capital). The Canadian government only heard about it second-handed.
Thus is the mentality of the mighty Americans. They will learn one day.
* Alaska is separated from the US landmass by the Canadian province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon.
World War II - The Alaska Highway - The Road to Civil Rights - General Highway History - Highway History -
Federal Highway Administration
How can an agreement was reached when supposedly only one side has knowledge about a proposal, eh?President Roosevelt approved the project on February 11, 1942, and an agreement for U.S. construction of a road in Canada was reached on March 18. The Alaska Highway would stretch northwest from Dawson Creek through Fort Nelson and Whitehorse in Canada, and via Tok Junction to Big Delta southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. At Big Delta, supply trucks and other traffic could connect with the Territory's road network.