The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 24, 1954, Page 5

The Growing Problem By FRANK O'BRIEN WASHINGTON «% —. Don’t be surprised’ if Russia soon offers to sell ‘production’ machinery to the Western world—and, at the same time, to buy production machinery from that same Western world. Contradictory, yes, but Soviet plans ‘usually are, and U. S. Com- merce Department officials analyz- ing. a Russian trade promotion campaign which has been under way for 9 or 10°months believe these points will be part of a pro- posal'they expect: Moscow to make goon,’a proposal advocating a “‘re- turn to normal -trade relations.” The means by which Russia hopes to. open up its trade with the West, at a low level since the Communist grab ‘of Czechoslovakia $n 1948, are devious, according to @ nonpublicized report circulating fa the Commerce Department. Objectives in ‘the campaign are And we're budgeting the whele vacation with a lean from CITY LOAN COMPANY!” i ciny LOAN ele of Key West 2-0681 $24 Southard St. equally devious in many regards. Here are some of them as seen by Commerce officials: 1, Russia is anxious to break Up or at least soften the non-Com- munist world’s picture of eammu- nism’ as able to meet only the barest needs of its own people, much less in the Wen. Pull any weight in ing 2, Sinee the ’20s Russia hag been: straining every sinew to pfoduce steel plants, transportation. and Mining equipment, and heavy ma- chinery. It may have a certain surplus (or at least dispensable) quantity of some types of such cap- ital goods it could trade for con-| ti sumer production equipment in an effort to give its. underprivileged People: a lift, 3. The shadow of the United States as the production colossus of the world is seriously . hurting Russia’s attempt to keep her fol- lowing in neutralist Asia and in nations of delicate political bal- ance, like Italy and France. 4. Economic ties are pipelines of Political influence. In any country where Russia can establish trade of any economic importance (for instance, become a main buyer of ships) it imme- diately expands it political influ- ence because it could cause eco- nomic trouble by threatening to withdraw this trade, Shipwrights in countries like France, Italy and THANKS! You Have Made Us A Million Dollar Institution In Less Than Two Years Your Savings are loaned to help people Buy, Build or Repair Their Homes. Your is in HONESTY and EFFICIENCY, not only of the First Federal Savings & Loan Association but also in the honesty and efficiency of our political HES oer SO, MAY BEG YOU TO REGISTER Before April 3rd and VOTE YOUR HONEST CONVICTIONS MAY 4TH FIRST FEDERAL SAYING & LOAN ASSOGIATION Deposits Insured by Federal Savings and Loan Ins. Corp., to $10,000 each account OPPOSITE BUS STATION Fred J. Dion, President , Of East-West Trade tmder the clutches of American direction and control.” : old L. Hunter, convicted last been caused by an antitermite so- | with BATH and TELEPHONE pearl byt earnertaenn, mare month of arson, appeared in Com- lution coming in contact with a Ritz P. hi Mill from Moscow with contracts for|™ Pleas Court yesterday for SA a AO 1 ers mg er oads,” beseeching sentencing. | {opt a uberal interpretation ‘on | TWO. words were typed on | CABINETETCCUNTERS “ghOOK. a HOTEL HOTEL icone’ de lists. sheet of paper and held up before Your Specifications—FLOOR COV. 132 E. Flagler St. 226 N.E. Ist Ave. 229 N.E. Ist Ave. ‘Agreed on by major Western na- the totally deaf defendant. They; ERINGS . . . Asphalt, Plastic, 102 Rooms 100 Rooms tions, these lists include military read: “Life imprisonment.” | Rubber and Linoleum Tile — Free| cf Elevator Elevator Rooms equipment and materials and ma- The life sentence was manda- ce ere | = Solarium Heated Elevator chines needed to make them, |{0r. The 42-year-old man had mpRovEMENT COMPANY FREE INSPECTION ill, in a House of Commons speech, tempt to contribute nothing viet warmaking ability depends on common action throughout the free world, but Russia’s professed new cently from Moscow that the city’s downtown hotels were sprinkled with foreign trade delegations and ‘businessmen, some talking about contracts worth millions of dollars. British traders, Kasischke said, were the most numerous and most optimistic. Other delegations men- tioned were from France, Argen- tina, Egypt, Israel, India and Bel- gium as well as from Soviet satel- lites. China, Hungary and Czecho- slovakia. British merchants said their bids were competing with U. &. commercial offers, but no American traders were located in Moscow. The talk in Moscow was of So- viet purchases of ships, textile machinery, consumer goods, farm products and raw materials, and Soviet sales of grain, timber, man- For Western nations heavily de- pendent on trade with the United States, the. Soviet radio and press predict an economic crisis in this country that will leave these trade allies on the breadlines. They of- fer Russian and other Soviet bloc trade as a hedge against depres- sion and a way “‘to get out from IP SSSHSHSSLSSEHRHSOOHSSHSHOSSHHSESHOHOCESE ARE +A 8 oes petably Teer Bo ch cw, from one traveler to another ox (rea: the swaiter himeclf: “Disn’t just ack for beiclon; sk for Beane di Lae? KENTUCKY BLENDED BOURBON WHISKEY 96 Proof. 51% Kentucky Straight Bourbon wer peeing Greia Meutsal, Spitits. The Bourbon de Luss Compoep, Lovise: Keatecks At conference Russian Foreign Min- ister V. M. Molotov proposed a conference to consider lower strategic trade barriers between exploded. East “| (Tomorrow: What’s our move? 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