Memorandum from Robert N. Golding to W. C. Foster with Attached Draft Letter to Senator Pat McCarran
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STANDARD FORM NO. 64
1/4
Office Memorandum
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO
:
Mr. Wm. C. Foster, Administrator
DATE: January 4, 1951
FROM
: Robert N. Golding MM
Special Asst. for/East-West Trade Affairs
SUBJECT:
Reply to Letter from Senator McCarran - Comments upon
his Letter to Secretary Sawyer.
The attached proposed reply is being circulated in draft form
to Messrs. Bissell, Porter, Joyce and Cooley who are also being sent
a summary of the letter of Senator McCarran to Secretary Sawyer.
Inasmuch as Secretary Sawyer is requested to produce detailed
information and statistics and the ECA Administrator is asked only
for any comments which he might feel appropriate, it occurred to me
that here was an opportunity to present some basic thinking without
having the presentation cluttered up with long explanations of
specific details such as the 1947 sale of jet engines.
The things in this letter ought to be said, and will have to
be said sooner or later, before Congressional committees. The question
involved here is, Should they be said now?
The admonition in the second paragraph is really directed to
the Department of Commerce, but it is directed to me as a more politic
way of getting the idea across.
The proposed letter is in itself an operation and the objective
which it seeks is to get people to realize that the problem cannot
be solved by any narrow inflexible approach.
The statistics on page 5 were compiled by the Security and
Investigation Division, the sources being OSR Finance and Trade
Division, OEEC and customs statistics of various countries. They
were not classified by OSR and in any event I don't see why they
should not be made public.
Before being sent out in final form, the proposed letter to
Senator McCarran should be cleared with the State Department, but
prior to that the final form should be determined upon within ECA.
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