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...eight years since Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King met at Ogdensburg, N.Y. and pledged their countries to joint action in defense of North America. The agreement still stands, but because it keeps raising questions which have to be settled at the top policy level, U.S. Defense Secretary James Forrestal was in Ottawa last week. After talking things over with his Canadian counterpart, Brooke Claxton, he planned to go to Ogdensburg with Claxton and unveil a plaque commemorating the signing of the agreement...
Sitting down with Forrestal and four members of the Canadian cabinet's defense committee were the chiefs of staff of Canada's armed services and General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, co-chairman of the Joint Defense Board set up under the Ogdensburg agreement. Top items for discussion: plans for Canada's industrial mobilization, the standardization of U.S. and Canadian arms, what to do about U.S. bases in Newfoundland when the "Oldest Colony" becomes the newest province. No hard & fast detailed decisions were made; the idea of the meeting was to keep defense cooperation firmly based on close...
...Ogdensburg next day, everything went awry. Although a tight schedule had forced Forrestal to give up the idea of unveiling the plaque, he still expected to have time for a speech. But the boat that brought him across the St. Lawrence was late, and then Forrestal spent too long looking at antiques in one of the town's historic houses. In the end, he bolted his lunch and hustled for his plane without making the speech...
Filed Out. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., Plate Umpire Donahue glared disgustedly at the obscuring clouds of insects swarming around the arc lights, suspended the night game on account of "eel flies...
...declared that the opposition was in the hands of J.P. Morgan. On continual guard against governmental power projects, private power companies realize the vast potentialities of the St. Lawrence. In 1921, Alcoa, General Electric, and Du Pont wanted to buy the rights for power development on the river from Ogdensburg, New York, to Montreal. They were willing to throw the navigation in for free, but were turned down. Although spokesmen for private power claim that the supply is adequate, New York and New England are paying rates that are unusually high for such a highly industrialized section of the country...