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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 9, 1951.
MR. MURPHY:
Mr. Haselton, State Department, thought you might want
this for the President's information -
"We have just received from Canada a short transcript
of what the Governor General said on the St. Lawrence on the
opening of Parliament, as follows:
October 9, 1951
The Speech from the Throne contains, inter alia,
the following --
My Prime Minister has conferred recently wi th the
President of the United States on the vital importance to
the security and economy of both countries of proceeding as
rapidly as possible with both the seaway and the power phases
of the St. Lawrence project.
The President stated he would support Canadian action
to construct the seaway as second best, if an early commence-
ment of the joint development does not prove possible. Terms
have been arranged with the Government of Ontario for the
participation of the Ontario Hydroelectric Power Commission
with the appropriate federal or state authorit in the United
States for the power development in the international section
of the St. Lawrence, and with respect to the division of costs
between power and navigation.
You will be asked to enact legislation to provide for
an appropriate agency of the federal Government to deal with the
construction of the St. Lawrence seaway. The proposed agency
would be empowered to proceed either with the Canadian share of
an international undertaking or a solely Canadian development,
as soon as satisfactory international arrangements can be made
for the power phases of the project in both countries.
: ARCHIVES "INATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE' A
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