Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent

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7798 November 7, 1952 Dear Mr. Prime Minister: 1 appreciated most highly your good letter of October thirty-first and, after receiving it, I instructed the Secretary of State to confer with your Ambassador here and inform him that I am in agreement with your proposal. I am sincerely happy that this great project will be carried to a successful consurnmation. One of my first votes in the Senate of the United States in 1935 was for the Saint Lawrence Seaway. One of my last messages to the Congress covered the Saint Lawrence Seaway project. I am most happy that there is now a prospect of its being built and completed by your Government. Sincerely yours, ARCHIVES NATIONAL RECORDE AMD of SERVICE* HARRY S. TRUMAN The Right Honorable Louis S. St. Laurent Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada Ottawa, Canada