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Ottawa's attitude was a far cry from its feelings at a similar conference in 1932. Then, weakened by a depression and with her exports lagging, Canada fought for preferential trade treatment within the Commonwealth. Now, riding a record boom in domestic production and foreign trade, Ottawa spokesmen are inclined to scold the sterling countries...
Some Pick-Sloan critics charge that the plan envisions the use of more water than the valley contains. The arid western states insist that enough water be kept in their areas to meet the needs of future development. Spokesmen like Montana's big, bluff Governor John W. Bonner contend that this will be impossible if water is "sucked out" of upper valley lands for a lower basin navigation channel and the huge power dams. Downriver opponents such as Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith reply that proposed irrigation projects in the West may cut off lower valley drinking water...
...Opposition's Weakness. When a party is too long out of power, some of its leaders and spokesmen become irresponsible. The Democrats will paint the Republican Party as the party of Jenner, McCarthy & Cain...
...moment are the objections raised by some that sacred art must be adapted to the necessities and conditions of the present times. For sacred art, which originated with Christian society, possesses its own ends, from which it can never diverge." Although the statement also deplored stereotyped religious art, Vatican spokesmen admitted that it was aimed principally at modern artists who find church decoration a new and challenging technical medium. Wrote Archbishop Celso Costantini: "We are at present in a Babel of art ... The clamor caused by Matisse decorating the chapel of Vence has not yet died down . . . Chagall would like...
...spokesmen, echoed by the British Foreign Office, have scornfully belittled the propaganda as a monstrous and incredible Big Lie. Through the U.N., the International Red Cross has offered to investigate, and has been brusquely rebuffed by the Communists. Meanwhile, the Big Lie is spread with undiminished intensity by Russian and Chinese press and radio, by such native-son instruments as New York's Daily Worker and the West Coast's Daily People's, by France's Humanite and its Communist-Physicist Frederic Joliot-Curie...