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Chuong will discuss the forthcoming elections of a Vietnamese National Assembly and the East-West talks scheduled to be held in Geneva next July...
...that when Indian servants place a chair of honor for her, she insists on sitting on the ground. She will love the Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris and embarrasses everyone by insisting on wearing one at an East-West social function. Most comical of all, the Indians' rich, aristocratic, complexion-conscious Brahmans and Parsees of Bombay resent her modish suntan...
...find markets for their goods in the Soviet bloc that they cannot find in the U.S. or in Western Europe. Finally, an American policy of extended trade with the Soviet Union would allow so-called "neutral" or non-committed nations, such as India, to breathe more easily. A relaxed East-West atmosphere would grant these countries a freer radius of action, and allow them to remain neutral with less fear of alienating either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R...
Some critics argue that increased East-West trade would allow Russia to divert resources from consumer production to industrial uses, by enabling her to import many consumer items. This, however, is not a vital consideration. Estimates of Russia's gross national product run to about $125 billion (converted to U.S. dollars and purchasing power). Of this, about fifty percent ($62.5 billion) probably goes for consumer items, thirty-five percent to capital investment, and fifteen percent to military uses. If the U.S. were to increase its trade with the U.S.S.R. to the tune of, for example, $200 million, which is practically...
...long run, such a policy would prove far more useful than dangerous. It would improve world relations more than summit meetings and Martinis. Extended East-West trade would invigorate economies of our allies, and would also ease the pressure on "neutral" countries. It would alleviate much tension and discourage hasty or precipitous action by either side. Coexistence seems here to stay. Resuming a freer flow of East-West commerce would greatly improve the condition of the de facto situation that the world appears destined to accept for an inestimable length of time...