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...attacked on both sides of the border for more than 50 years. Canada has been anxious to build it; all U.S. Presidents from Coolidge to Truman have advocated it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But the U.S. Congress, hobbled by minority interests (railroads and East Coast shippers), has never given its consent. Canada, feeling her newly won strength, has now announced that if Congress does not agree to a joint project before May, she will build the $300 million seaway alone. Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co., hailed the Canadian seaway plan last week as "an example of initiative...
John was ready to suggest another reward. Considering Picasso's reputation with British artists and critics, "would it not be a gracious and timely gesture on the part of the Royal Academy if, with the consent of the Sovereign Señor Picasso were invited to accept Honorary Membership of that historic body...
...only action taken by University Hall after the Council publicized its findings was to prohibit scholarship holders from using the tutoring schools without official consent...
...communiqué issued by the White House contained some notable points of agreement. As a gesture to British public opinion, the U.S. promised not to use its British air bases "in an emergency" without Britain's consent. The President and the Prime Minister promised "full support" to the European defense community, declared a "complete identity of aims" between the U.S. and Britain in the Middle East...
...Amendment, but the Fifth, which says explicitly that no man can be compelled to testify against himself in any criminal case. Wrote Douglas: "Words taken from his lips, capsules taken from his stomach, blood taken from his veins are all inadmissible, provided they are taken from him without his consent...