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I. INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
1. First of all, I wish to say that ECA advocates the currently
minority view,-the unpopular view if you will,-in Congress, among the
agencies, among the newspapers. Because we are convinced that the
popular view will lose, not win, for us, we can have no part in advocat-
ing it. I may say, however, that we have had considerable success in
converting those who make themselves familiar with all the ramifications
of this problem, and that is why Mr. Foster always ends his letters to
members of Congress with this sentence:
"I cannot state too strongly my belief that a full knowledge
of the facts and of the problems involved is a prerequisite to sound
judgment.'
2. Trade manipulation is an implement of economic warfare and
economic warfare is warfare, not economics. Consequently, I shall
discuss the subject in terms of warfare, not economics. There is
nothing mysterious about the principles of war, which is just one
kind of a controversy. All successful negotiators and trial lawyers
follow these principles, mostly without being conscious of it. I
presume to know something about them because I have been a trial
lawyer for a number of years. You will not be helped, however, by
generalities.
General Vandenberg's article has been inserted in the Congres-
sional Record, February 26, 1951, page A991. He said: "A controversy
affecting the lives of soldiers cannot be settled by lining up votes
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