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 54 STAT.] CANADA-WATERWAY- Oct. 14, 31 40 2427 Nov. 7, 1940 2427 I shall be glad if you will let me know if your Government is in accord with the foregoing proposals. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. For the Secretary of State: ADOLF A. BERaL, Jr. The Honorable LORING C. CHRIsTME, Minister of Canada. The CanadianMinister to the Secretary of State No. 316. CANADIAN LEGATION WASHINGTON October 14, 1940. SIR: I have the honour to refer to your note of October 14, in which c^a*men by you proposed that the Governments of Canada and the United States take immediate steps looking to the early development of certain portions of the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Basin project. I am instructed to inform you that the Canadian Government is in accord with the proposals which you have made. I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, LORINa C. CHISTI The Honourable CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State of the United States, Washington, D. C. The CanadianMinister to the Secretary of State No. 340 CANADIAN LEGATION WAsIIINa ON October 31, 1940. SIR: I have the honour to refer to the third paragraph of your note of October 14 concerning the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin project, in which you state that to assist in providing an adequate supply of power to meet Canadian defence needs and contingent upon the Province of Ontario's agreeing to provide immediately for diver- sions into the Great Lakes System of waters from the Albany River Basin which normally flow into Hudson Bay, the Government of the United States would interpose no objection, pending the conclusion of a final Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin agreement between the two countries, to the immediate utilization for power at Niagara Falls by the Province of Ontario of additional waters equivalent in quantity to the diversions into the Great Lakes Basin above re- ferred to.

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