Trade Restrictions Claimed Curse Of Europe
Received Friday, 6.50 p.m. " . NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Europe itself must produce leaders, methods and institutions to make a neW continent in Western Europe out of the assemblage of^gallant bnt econoniically strangled nations, said Mr. Paul Hoffman, Eeonomic Co-operation Aaministrator, addressing the Academy of Political Science at Columbia Universiety. Mr. Hoffman said he held high hopes for early and rapid progress toward the longer range goal of European integration. "From whatever viewpoint you look at it trade restrictions have been" the curse of Europe during the last 50 years. I do not see how Europe -wiJlever find military security or eeonomic well being until it sweeps those barriers away. " Mr. Hoffman deelared it was only behind absolute trade barriers that Hitler had been abie to convert German economy from the production of butter to guns. Europe for the past 50 years had been in a process of destroying the conditions of its eeonomic greatness by. increasing political eeonomic nationalism. - .
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 November 1949, Page 5
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