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Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent flew to Washington last week to get President Harry Truman's approval of Canada's plans to go it alone in building the St. Lawrence seaway. After more than an hour's discussion of the $300 million, all-Canadian route to carry ocean-going ships as far west as Detroit, St. Laurent emerged smiling from the President's office. "We have agreed on a joint statement," he told a group of newsmen in the White House lobby. One reporter asked whether the news would be good or bad. "Good," said...
Second Best. On its face the official statement scarcely bore out St. Laurent's enthusiasm. Still missing was the formal presidential agreement which Canada needs before she can alter the levels of U.S.-Canadian boundary waters. But the communique did contain one meaningful commitment: "The President would support the Canadian action as second best if an early commencement of the joint development does not prove possible...
...dormant seaway debate on Capitol Hill. Backers of the joint plan called for Congress to act fast before the Canadians go ahead with a route on which U.S. ships will have to pay tolls. The anti-seaway forces still charged that the Canadians were bluffing. One lobbyist called St. Laurent's visit "a propaganda maneuver...
Last week, Canada was promised a closer acquaintance with the young royal couple. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent announced that Elizabeth and Philip had accepted an invitation to visit the Dominion in October...
...rubber tires for Red China were aboard the Ming Sung ships. But they excused the traffic as a minor affair, defended Ming Sung's Canadian registry as a protective device for Canadian investors and taxpayers, i.e., the banks who hold Ming Sung ship mortgages. Prime Minister St. Laurent flatly refused to withdraw the ships' Canadian charter. The Liberal majority, without a single defection from the ranks, voted down, 116 to 36, the Tory proposal to cancel the registry...