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Show 28 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER and signed them, or it demanded to have its name eliminated entirely on the official California comments. The Board's refusal to approve the comments would have brought the family row to public notice, and such a result could only have adversely affected California in Washington. Despite its conviction that neither Engle nor the governor were acting in the best interests of California, the Board capitulated. Governor Warren's views became the official comments of the state and went to Secretary Chapman. That the Board had been foresighted and wise in the comments it had first pre- pared would in time be demonstrated, and the thorough reports of the Board's engineers would not, after all, be wasted. When the crsp came before Congress, it was soon understood by every official from the governor down that California had to wage an unrelenting fight against the project to save its own resources. Meanwhile, Governor Warren's weak and equivo- cating comments had to serve as the official views of the state. They said: 28 The voluminous reports on the Colorado River project and on the participating projects have been reviewed and studied by the State Division of Water Resources and the Colorado River Board of California, as fully as prac- ticable within the limited time available under circum- stances existing, and as permitted under provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved December 22, 1944. It is the policy of the state of California to favor full development of the upper basin of the Colorado River system, utilizing the water apportioned to it under the Colorado River Compact. The primary interest of the state of California in the specific projects set forth in the report of the Commissioner of Reclamation as approved by the Secretary of the In- terior on January 26, 1951, is that in the construction and |
