The Northwest: Broadened Vista

Before a battery of TV and movie cameras in the Cabinet Room of the White House, President Eisenhower and Canada's Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker last week signed the outgoing Administration's last, and perhaps most meaningful, treaty. It was "the first time in history," said Diefenbaker, that two nations had agreed to share, on anywhere near so grand a scale, in "the development of an international river." It was more than that: it was an agreement that could result in a better life for scores of thousands of citizens on both sides of the border.

For 16 years, on and...

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