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This week in Washington, the vast, controversial St. Lawrence seaway project was back in the news. The seaway, a $935 million plan, which would open the North American heartland to ocean shipping and release a mighty flow of new electric power, has been kicked around between planners, engineers and hard-boiled lobbyists for half a century. Now President Truman is sending his top men (headed by Secretaries Acheson and Marshall) to make a positive case for the project before the House Public Works Committee. Reason: the seaway's vital importance to Western defense, and, incidentally, to U.S.-Canadian unity...
...chance for congressional approval of a 1941 Canadian-American agreement for joint construction of the project looks better than usual. But it is far from assured. The anti-seaway lobby is still deeply entrenched on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Canadian patience is wearing thin. Said External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson in Ottawa last week: "The Americans say we are dragging our feet in world affairs. The biggest and longest dragging of feet I have known in my entire career is that of the Americans on the St. Lawrence seaway...
...John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have sung of the countrysides Britons love, of the sports and sportsmen dear to their hearts and of the gallant voyaging that is the stuff of their history...
With the steel mill proposal, will come a redoubled effort on the part of New England businessmen to block the St. Lawrence Seaway. If the ore from Labrador could travel down the St. Lawrence to the Great Lake ports, the geographical advantage of a New England steel mill would be materially diminished. The prospect of an important industry in New England threatened by the Seaway may well be the reason why New England senators fight the St. Lawrence project...
Beyond the budget (except for some token down payments) are items to get Harry Truman's welfare-state program under way and also for the full cost of such projects as the St. Lawrence Seaway ($600 million to $1 billion). Items...