ABSTRACT
The appointment of full members from the Department of External Affairs and the State Department was significant in that it lent Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) matters a higher priority in the activities of each nation's political departments. The PJBD was the ideal agency to cope with the work at hand; as Colonel Dziuban said, it met the needs of both leaders; but it also met the needs of both countries. Other agencies were becoming or had become increasingly involved in work that was more concrete than making recommendations, and the importance of the PJBD decreased accordingly. The instructions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were carried out at the November 1945 meeting of the PJBD. The PJBD at its October 1950 meeting recognized that Russian aircraft posed a potential threat to North America, and the subject of US interceptor flights was raised.
