09/28/1950
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"Certain local and special interests in our country who fancy they would be adversely affected, have until now succeeded in blocking Congressional approval of United States participation in this projec..."
"It is a plain matter of national self-interest for us to join in its construction."
"I will be working for somebody else in 1952."
"From the standpoint of the national interest of the United States, this procedure is only second-best--and a poor second-best at that--to the procedure which has been awaiting Congressional approval f..."