Harold E. Stassen,
Director, Foreign Operations Administration.
May 17, 1954.
| CONTENTS | ||
| INTRODUCTION: | Page | |
| Note on “Strategic” and “Nonstrategic” | 1 | |
| CHAPTERS: | ||
| I. | Stalin’s Lopsided Economy | [3] |
| Emphasis on Heavy Industry | ||
| How Forced Industrialization Affects Trade | ||
| How the Kremlin Controls Trade | ||
| West Has Never Barred Peaceful Exports | ||
| Stalin’s Last Gospel | ||
| II. | The New Regime and the Consumer | [11] |
| Letting Off Pressure | ||
| The “New Economic Courses” | ||
| Malenkov’s Big Announcement | ||
| Khrushchev and the Livestock Lag | ||
| Mikoyan Advertises the Program | ||
| Has Stalin Been Overruled? | ||
| III. | The Kremlin’s Recent Trading Activities | [19] |
| The New Trade Agreements | ||
| More Consumer Goods Ordered | ||
| A Shopping Spree for Ships | ||
| Most of All, They Want Hard Goods | ||
| Something Different in Soviet Exports | ||
| They Have Dug Up Manganese | ||
| The Emergence of Russian Oil | ||
| Gold Sales Expanded | ||
| Reaching Outside Europe | ||
| IV. | What’s Behind It All | [35] |
| The Kremlin and Peace | ||
| A Mixture of Motives | ||
| Their Objectives Haven’t Changed | ||
| Their Practices Haven’t Changed | ||
| The Challenge | ||
| V. | U. S. Policy on Strategic Trade Controls | [43] |
| The Background | ||
| Basic Policy Reaffirmed | ||
| The New Direction of Policy | ||
| Reviewing the Control Lists | ||
| East-West Trade: Road to Peace | ||
| Trade Within the Free World | ||
| The China Trade Falls Off | ||
| They Play by Their Own Rules | ||
| United States Policy on the China Trade | ||
| VI. | The Battle Act and Economic Defense | [55] |
| Battle Act Functions | ||
| The Money and the Manpower | ||
| Meshing the Gears | ||
| Improving the Machinery | ||
| The Termination-of-Aid Provision | ||
| Miscellaneous Activities | ||
| Summary of the Report | ||
| APPENDICES | ||
| A. | Trade Controls of Free World Countries | [65] |
| B. | Statistical Tables | [89] |
| C. | Text of Battle Act | [99] |
| CHARTS | ||
| 1. | Volume of Trade of OEEC Countries With European Soviet Bloc | [6] |
| 2. | Free World Trade With the Soviet Bloc | [21] |
| 3. | EDAC Structure | [57] |
[INTRODUCTION]
Note on “Strategic” and “Nonstrategic”