Word: ottawa
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...answer was given more than 19 centuries ago, when Jesus Christ declared the supreme importance of spiritual things, and the relative unimportance of what is called material success . . . RAY BROWN Ottawa, Canada...
...Zealand and Australia-projected U.S. strength into the Pacific as a stabilizing force against the old rivalries that Communism loves to exploit. They set the stage for the next episode in strengthening the free world this week-the Big Three Foreign Ministers conference in Washington, and the Ottawa conference of the North Atlantic Treaty powers...
...spread too thin at their expense, and that NATO might lose its character as a North Atlantic community. The U.S. answer: there would be no lessening of American aid to northern Europe; there could be no NATO stability if the southern flank were left exposed. In conference at Ottawa this month, chances are that NATO will formally open its doors to Turkey and Greece...
...this might still be the seaway's year. In Albany, the New York Power Authority said that it would resume its efforts to get Washington's permission to develop the St. Lawrence's 2,200,000 h.p. hydroelectric potential jointly with Ontario. Canadian newspapers unanimously challenged Ottawa to carry out its repeated public notices to build the seaway alone if Congress failed to act this year. Cried the Toronto Globe and Mail: "Anything less would be a betrayal of our national needs and our national future." In Toronto, Premier Leslie Frost tartly remarked: "Now that our friends...
...Ottawa's probable policy: Parliament, when it convenes Oct. 9, will be asked to authorize the federal government to go ahead with the navigation project (cost: $500 million), while New York and Ontario develop the power (cost: $330 million). There is one possible hitch under a 1909 treaty: neither the U.S. nor Canada may tamper with St. Lawrence water levels without the other's O.K. Thus far, no serious opposition to an all-Canadian seaway has developed in Washington, but Canadians have learned to keep fingers crossed...