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...head of the National Association of Manufacturers, Mr. Frederick C. Crawford, last week introduced a new word into the lexicon of that association...
Speaking before the Detroit Economic Club, Mr. Crawford rarely mentioned the Association's oriflamme of "free private enterprise" without interpolating the word "competitive" in lieu of "private." Whereas most of the resolutions passed by N.A.M. at its December convention in New York rarely mentioned competition, Mr. Crawford came back again & again, to the theme. Said...
...Crawford's speech truly reflects N.A.M. sentiment, there is indeed something new in the leadership of U.S. business, and the long-standing suspicion that N.A.M. is the mouthpiece for those elements in big business most addicted to "sticky" fixed prices is no longer justified...
...Crawford's speech was also noteworthy because it edged, however gingerly, towards a doctrine of freer international trade. "If we want a market in China, Russia, India and other nations for the goods we can produce best," said he, "obviously we must not bar those nations from our own market." He carefully omitted any reference to Great Britain, which happens to constitute the crucial postwar trade problem for three reasons: 1) British and American trade before the war was the biggest slice of all world trade; 2) discriminatory U.S. tariffs played a large part in driving Britain to discriminatory...
Said the Louisville Courier-Journal's former Washington correspondent Ulric Bell (now with OWI): "We thought John definitely anti-British. . . ." Kenneth Crawford, Washington reporter for PM, said he had concluded from remarks he had heard O'Donnell make that O'Donnell thought Hitler's oppression of the Jews justified...