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OD25'j3 Udall asked Arizonans to be flexible and not succumb to the tpmptation "to tell people to go to hell." "Let us approach these problems in a spirit of reasonableness." he said. "It is nice to blame California, but let's remember there are 16 or 18 million Californians, and not all Californians are against us, and not all of the California delegation is against us." Referring to the recent Cong-ress, he said, "The wonder is not that we failed. The wonder is tl]at we came as far as we did~" Lawrence Mehren, retiring as chairman of the board of CAP A, said Arizona had learned valuable lessons from its recent defeat in . Washington. "We learned," he said, "that Goliath across .the river (meaning. California) must have his way on his own terms, else he is an implacable foe. We learned that other members of the Great Alliance wavered under pres- sure. We found that t.he blood, sweat and tears must be basically Arizona's." . . 'Be Understanding,' Mr. Udall Urges Californians Congressman Udall went from the CAP A meet.ing to an- other at Coronado, Calif., to plead, on California's home ground, for support by that state of a "reasonable bill that can pass." The meeting was that of the Irrigation Districts Association of California. Mr. Udall asked Californians to be underst.anding , . of "Arizona's frustration and disappointment" at the failure of the Basin legislation in the Congress just past. The Arizonan's words were a good deal iessacrimonious . than those spoken at the same meeting by one of his congres- sional colleagues, Representative Hosmer of California. He called Arizonans "naive" for thinking they could pass CAP in one session and said "Arizona collapsed in total disarray" when the bill failed. Then he told off the leading players of the Ari-. zona team one, by one. He criticized Lawrence. Mehren for . blaming California for the defeat and for attacking the latter's "selfishness, shortsightedness and duplicity." He said Senator Hayden offered no assistance for 18 months. He complained that the Arizona RCJlublic "churlishly blasted as impractical from the beginning any idea of a compromise bill." He chewed out Governor Goddard for demanding, as he put it, "a report on the feasibility of an Arizona 'do it yourself kit' . . . before he leaves the statehouse." He complained that Rich Johnson also blamed California for the failure of CAP and had attacked California as being "unwilling to act in good faith." He accused Congressman Rhodes of favoring the selection of California "as an enemy rather than a friend." He charged Secretary Udall with precipitating "an even wider public-versus-private- power controversy" by stripping the dams away from the bill and substituting nuclear plants. And he claimed that Congress- man Udall had "toyed with the idea of substituting water sal- vage for water importation" and of joining his brother in sup- porting nuclear "cash register" plants. -32- '"