MEMBERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION BY THE UNITED STATES IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ORGANIZATION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS

UNITED STATES IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE

ORGANIZATION

HEARINGS

1.S. Congass: House, BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. J. Res. 236

A JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR MEMBERSHIP
AND PARTICIPATION BY THE UNITED STATES
IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ORGANI-

ZATION, AND AUTHORIZING AN
APPROPRIATION THEREFOR

APRIL 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, MAY 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1950

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Wednesday, April 19, 1950 :

LIST OF WITNESSES

Hon. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, Department of State------

Hon. Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State, Department of

State

Mr. Winthrop G. Brown, Director, Office of International Trade Policy,

Department of State-----

Thursday, April 20, 1950:

Hon. Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State, Department of

State

Page

9

17

40

43

Mr. Winthrop G. Brown, Director, Office of International Trade

Policy, Department of State_____

74

95

100

Friday, April 21, 1950:

Hon. Edward H. Foley, Under Secretary of the Treasury----

Mr. George H. Willis, Office of International Finance, Department of

the Treasury....

Tuesday, April 25, 1950:

Mr. William L. Batt, chairman, committee for the International Trade

Organization_

Mr. James S. Schramm, vice president, J. S. Schramm Co., Burlington,

Iowa.__

Wednesday, April 26, 1950 :

Mr. O. R. Strackbein, chairman, National Labor-Management Council

on Foreign Trade Policy___

Thursday, April 27, 1950:

111

146

155

Mr. R. F. Loree, chairman, National Foreign Trade Council--------

Mr. Charles R. Carroll, chairman, law committee, National Foreign

Trade Council_____

177

267

Mr. Stanley H. Ruttenberg, director, department of education and

research, CIO______

269

Mr. Harry S. Barger, representing Mr. Merwin K. Hart, president,

National Economic Council, Inc_

295

Monday, May 1, 1950:

Hon. Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture.....

Mr. Stanley Andrews, Director, Office of Foreign Agricultural Re-

lations, Department of Agriculture--

Tuesday, May 2, 1950:

Mr. John C. Lynn, assistant legislative director, American Farm

Bureau Federation--

Mr. William H. Lukens, vice president, R. M. Hollingshead Corp.,

Camden, N. J.

Mr. Winthrop G. Brown, Director, Office of International Trade

Policy, Department of State-----

Wednesday, May 3, 1950:

Mr. Richard H. Anthony, secretary, the American Tariff League---

Mr. Morris S. Rosenthal, president, National Council of American

Importers, Inc.

Thursday, May 4, 1950:

Mr. Earl O. Shreve, United States Chamber of Commerce...

Mr. Kenneth H. Campbell, manager, foreign commerce department,

United States Chamber of Commerce.....

Mrs. Allan C. G. Mitchell, national director, League of Women Voters

of the United States......