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...broad sketch of the veto message, were told to go to work on Republicans and Democrats alike with one big argument: "There is going to be a certain amount of inflation, we all know that. It is here already. But we've got to keep the dam propped up some way. If we override this veto, no matter what happens that is wrong, Congress will be blamed for it. . . ." Buttonholing went on half the night...
Last week in a convention at Montreal the CCF of militant Quebec Province adopted a resolution demanding public ownership of all power resources in Canada. The resolution singled out the controversial $106,000,000 Shipshaw development in the hinterlands of Quebec (world's largest power dam, with the possible exception of Boulder), as a "scandalous exploitation of Canadian resources," made it a leading argument for public ownership, a vital campaign issue in the next election. To steer clear of interference with the war program, CCF tempered its resolution to read...
...ownership. Already producing power and scheduled for completion in November, Shipshaw was under construction 15 months before its existence was revealed last January. The Aluminum Co. of Canada had financed it to the hilt from contracts on future aluminum deliveries signed with the U.S., Britain and Australia. Primarily, the dam was built to supply power for the war production of aluminum. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones advanced $68,500,000 in fund's of the Metals Reserve Co. Great Britain advanced $55,600,000, Australia $10,000,000. Canada contributed an excess-profits tax write...
Coldwell charges that the Aluminum Co. of Canada will pay for the dam from its contracts by the close of the war, will come out with "a monopoly which will dominate electric-power resources and the production of aluminum on the American continent and to a large extent throughout the world." The method of finance, he contends, makes the project a "virtual gift" to the aluminum interests, and "the greatest financial grab ever pulled off in . . . Canada." Shipshaw, insists he, must be seized by the Province of Quebec...
Because the King was not there, it was Queen Elizabeth, in a plain grey dress prettied with orchids, who from the dais of Buckingham Palace's Grand Hall be stowed decorations on Empire heroes-first among them R.A.F. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, leader of dam-destroying planes over Germany. Possessor of letters patent making her one of five Councilors of State during the King's Mediterranean tour, the Queen said to Gibson: "The King has asked me to say how sorry he is not to be able to give the Victoria Cross to you personally...