Transcript of Executive Session of the United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Subcommittee on Export Policies and Controls, Washington D.C.

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EXECUTIVE SESSION 2 March 1951 United States Senate, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Export Policies and Controls, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee net, pursuant to call, in the U. S. Capitol. Senator Herbert R. 'Conor presiding. Senator 0*Conor. For the record, vill you gentlemen please identify "yourselves? STATEMENTS OF ROBERT N. GOLDING, SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR EAST-WEST TRADE AFFAIRS, E.C.A.; ARTHUR M. cox, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, EAST-WEST TRADE, POLICY STATT; AND R. HANSEN, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF MISSION IN AUSTRIA. ON CONSULTATION IN WASHINGTON, D. C. Mr. Golding. I am Robert N. Golding. Special Assistant for East-West Trade Affairs, E.C.A. Mr. Cox. Arthur M. Cox, Deputy Director, East-West Trade, Policy Staff. Mr. Hansen. Kenneth R. Hansen, Special Assistant to the Chief of Mission in Austria, on consultation here in Washington. Mr. Adlerman. It might be better for Mr. Golding to give us a resume of the general situation as it affects East-Mest trade and how E.C.A. is affected by it, and so forth In other words, rather than ask any particular questions at this time, suppose we ask you to give us a little talk on the subject. P. 2 Mr. Golding. I was going to suggest that it vould save a lot of the Senator's time if I gave him the framework, then we could hand the facts on the franework, and then see what we could do about those facts. Just by way of preface, I would like to point to the fact that there havo been really three phases of E.C.A. activity. The first year was keeping people alive -- food, fuel, fertilizer. The second year tha emphasis passed over onto industry. of course there was some of that the first year, too. Now in the third year it is industry which contributes to rearnament. But the whole thing, from the very deginning, in the minds, I think, of the responsible E.C.A. officials, was really a step in economic warfare. When you get right down to it, E.C.A. was our first move in economic warfare,