Ernest Gruening

Speaking from long devotion to Alaska and with high aspirations for its future, Ernest Gruening, Alaska’s governor from 1939 to 1953 and its senator since it became a state, argues in favor of the proposed Rampart Canyon Dam, which Paul Brooks attacked in his article “The Plot to Drown Alaska” in the May ATLANTIC.

“Alaska’s history has been one of neglect by a distant and uninterested federal government. Worse, it has been a history of continuing discrimination which makes Alaska today a flagrant example of colonialism.”