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Increased U.S.-Soviet trade is desirable on several important counts. If the free world is, as it seems, bound to accept a prolonged state of coexistence with the Soviet Union, healthier commercial intercourse between East and West will lead to a less tense and precipitous atmosphere. Rehabilitated US-USSR trade would also allow other non-Soviet nations to relax their trade relations with the Soviet bloc, and could provide them with new markets free of the prohibitive dollar-gap difficulty...
...traders desire to deal with the USSR is shown by the rise in licensing applications over the past few years. From $1,776,000 in 1951, the value of these requests jumped...
...real barriers to increases in US-Soviet trade far surpass licensing requirements. The "strategic" classification itself is so stringent as to prohibit exportation of anything Russia seeks to import. In addition to keeping out of the USSR anything helpful to Soviet military potential, export controls also ban commodities which could in any long-run, remote way be useful to Red industrial development. Naturally Russia has little yearning for baby bibs and dentures, so there are declared non-strategic. With supply and demand stubbornly entrenched back to back, US-USSR trade had consequently dwindled to practically nothing. An unencouraging US official...
...adequacy and timeliness of our response will largely depend, I believe, on the development of a new or revamped American leadership that rejects the cynical assumption, which sometimes seems to be held by many American political leaders as well as by the leaders of the USSR, that modern Americans can be interested only in larger paychecks, faster cars, and more garish entertainment...
...influences and has actually completed a trip to Russia is Martin E. Malia, assistant professor of History. Under the auspices of the Ford Foundation and a group of University libraries, including Widener, he spent five months in Russia to arrange for book exchanges between the United States and the USSR. He had success in his mission. And, more important, he had the chance to talk with Russian students and teachers in their own language over an extended period of time without the "cooperation" of Intourist. His findings are significant largely because they illustrate that the intelligent Russian student...