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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...
Although the U.S. Congress has failed to act on the seaway for 20 years, Harry Truman still hopes to get congressional approval for a joint U.S.-Canadian project. By holding back from full approval of the all-Canadian route for the time being, he was, in effect, giving Congress a final chance to pass a seaway bill now or at the new session in January. If it is not approved by next spring, when the Canadians can begin the six-year job of digging their own channels, Truman presumably will accept the "second best...
Power Deals. Canada's announcement of her solo plans stirred up the 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...
...Seaway supporters talked of seeking congressional reconsideration this session; their chances of success are slim. But there is evidence elsewhere that 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...
...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...