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    "ocrText": "-3-\nU.S. Asks U.N. Study of Slave Labor in the Soviet Union. -\nIn a statement before the U.N. Economic and Social Council on\nFebruary 14, U.S. Delegate Willard Thorp called for an impartial\ninvestigation of the forced-labor problem, asserting that from\nthe diverse information available an estimated 8 million to\n14 million persons in the Soviet Union are working under slave-\nlabor conditions. Similar charges, he said, have been raised\nagainst other eastern European countries having Communist\nregimes more or less on the Soviet model. \"If the representa-\ntives of the U.S.S.R. and other countries deny that forced\nlabor exists in their countries\", he pointed out, \"let them\nopen the way for an impartial study,\nThen we shall learn\nwhether the reports correspond to the facts, whether human\nrights are sabotaged or safeguarded. \" 2\nU.S. Restrictions on Exports of Strategic Materials:\n-\nAt the Geneva meeting of the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe\nthe complaint was voiced that the U.S. export-license policy\nis in some respects an obstacle to East-West trade. In reply,\nthe Deputy U.S. Representative, Paul R. Porter, said that\nit is not our policy to ship strategic materials to countries\nwhich do not encourage trade that fosters peace and recovery.\n\"So long as the Soviet Union\", he added, \"pursues a policy which\nhundreds of millions of people throughout the world regard as\naggressive, the U.S. will not aggravate the risks to peace-\nloving countries by shipping goods of significant military\nvalue\n2Ibid., Feb. 27, p. 249."
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