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First Fruits. De Gaulle's first public outing took him to the inauguration of the Moselle River Waterway. After six years of work and an investment of nearly $200 million, the Moselle has been widened and provided with locks, thus making the river navigable for big barges and giving the steel mills of Lorraine an easy link to the Ruhr Valley's coal...
...construction and operation of the new Canal were directed by the OAS, the waterway would serve as more than a boon to shipping and a means of ending the persistent hassles caused by the Panama Canal. The United States would have to bear most of the costs, and would deserve most of the revenues. Provisions for military security might be hard to arrange, but would also be much less critical than they are at the Panama Canal, where a few sticks of dynamite could knock a lock out of operation for months...
...Panama will probably work out a compromise eventually. But even then, the Panama Canal problems will not be ended. The canal has long ago ceased to be a vital military waterway for the U.S., and as an avenue of world trade it is rapidly growing obsolete. What is needed is a brand-new canal...
...willing to negotiate, but how far it would go on the treaties was open to question. Panama owes its existence as a nation (before 1903 it was a part of Colombia) to Teddy Roosevelt's diplomacy and determination to build the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific. But the present canal is rapidly growing obsolete. The U.S. no longer considers it vital to defense in these days of missiles and two-ocean navies, is seriously considering a second canal to handle growing commercial traffic. Yet 5,600,000 tons of shipping still pass through the old locks each month...
...Dutch port of Rotterdam is already Europe's biggest seaport, and the prosperity of the Common Market pours through it in a growing current of trade. Strategically set astride the Rhine-Maas waterway, which leads to the heart of industrial Europe, Rotterdam handles more cargo than Antwerp, Bremen and Hamburg put together-and nearly as much as New York (90.1 million tons v. New York's 90.5). Ambitious Rotterdam and its wily businessmen are not content with second place. They have launched a campaign to pass New York as the world's biggest port, are busily building...