Word: shawcross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, went down last week to seagirt Cornwall, where he often goes sailing. There, in a luncheon speech, Socialist Shawcross made a defiant announcement: Britain has no intention of tossing overboard her small but growing trade with Iron Curtain countries, regardless of what the U.S. Congress says or does...
...Shawcross minimized the chief point of U.S. criticism: while Britain embargoes such obvious war goods as aircraft engines and arms, its chief exports to Iron Curtain countries are machinery and machine tools (60% of its $197 million Iron Curtain traffic last year) and raw rubber (7,000 tons in the first five months...
While Britain has banned the export of war materials to Red China, it has left the door wide open for trade with Red Russia. Board of Trade President Sir Hartley Shawcross told the House of Commons last week that in the first four months of 1951 Britain sent to Soviet countries $1,091,000 worth of electrical generators, 410 tons of mining machinery and 23,596 tons of raw rubber...
...Shawcross defended the government's policy on the ground that Britain received a fifth of her total timber imports and a third of her total imports of coarse grains from Russia. Said he: "The advantages we get ... are at least as great as those which the Communist powers obtain...
Prime Minister Attlee's Labor government, whose ministers have been instructed not to criticize the U.S., last week: ¶ Prohibited further exports of rubber to Communist China (but not to Russia). President of the Board of Trade Sir Hartley Shawcross declared that China had already bought so much rubber this year "that her civilian needs can be regarded as satisfied for the current year." ¶Supported the U.S. proposal, adopted this week by the U.N. Additional Measures Committee, for a general embargo on shipments of arms and war-essential materials to Red China...