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...Wired President Hoover for a personal conference on the St. Lawrence River development. The U. S. and Canada are negotiating a treaty on which depends New York's State-owned, State-operated power project at Massena Point. A hitch with the State Department has developed on the State's share of the cost. The Democratic nominee suggested a meeting with the Republican nominee to "hasten the initiation of this vast project which means cheap transportation . . . cheap electricity for homes, farms and industries . . . and employment for thousands of workers." Obvious was the New York Governor's intention...
...into the hydroelectric power business on a scale as large as the U. S. at Boulder Dam. The Legislature at Albany passed a bill creating a State Power Authority to conduct this ambitious utility enterprise. The Power Authority will construct a $171,547,000 dam and generating plant near Massena Point on the international rapids of the St. Lawrence River. It will market the energy? some 2,000,000 h. p.?there produced, through private distributing agencies already in the utility field...
...reporting the Massena episode (which, by the way, you placed in the department of Religion as if ritual murder really had any connection with the Jewish religion) you say: "Long after the death of Moses Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs, and in the Ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors...
...What has occurred does not merely affect the Jews of Massena, whose very lives were placed in jeopardy, but the entire Jewish population of this country and of the world. ... I deem it my duty to demand of you an immediate and public written apology to the Jewish people for the terrible wrong which you have inflicted upon them...
This message brought an answer from the Mayor of Massena. Excerpts...