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Show 134 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER down Pennsylvania Avenue from Capitol Hill rushed the Arizona senators and their Upper Basin colleagues for audience with President Truman and Director Pace. Their influence was quickly apparent. Pace was in- duced to write a second letter, this time addressed to Senator O'Mahoney. Dated February 11, it satisfied the project supporters by telling O'Mahoney: 149 "In order that there may be no misunderstanding of the President's position, I shall be grateful if you will advise the members of your committee that the Presi- dent has not at any time indicated that suit in the Supreme Court is the only method of resolving the water rights controversy which is acceptable to him. "If the Congress, as a matter of national policy, makes a determination that there is a water supply available for the Central Arizona Project, the President will consider all factors involved in any legislation to authorize the project and will inform the Congress of his views respecting the specific provisions of this legis- lation." McFarland et al. went back up the Hill happier than they had gone down. California's hopes were dashed, but Poulson was not to be halted. He discovered that an Interior Department employee was also working as an Arizona journalist. "In the Phoenix Republic," Poulson declared,150 "A daily Arizona newspaper, there appeared in the issue of February 8, 1949, a dispatch under the by-line 'By Ottis Peterson.' "Above Mr. Peterson's name was this information: 'Republic's Washington Bureau, 1397 National Press Building.' "The Department of Interior informs me that Mr. |