<--PREV Doc #832  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #834 Document #833; April 16, 1954 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter Series ; Category: Memorandum The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part V: Maintaining "a united defense"; April 1954 to August 1954 Chapter 10: Losing the war "they could not win"   In my message to the Congress on the subject of foreign economic policy, I drew attention to the recommendation of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy that our anti-trust policies be restated in a manner which would clearly acknowledge the right of each country to regulate trade within its own borders.1 I am asking the Attorney General to give consideration to this recommendation in his current review of our anti-trust policies.2 I also pointed out in my message that the Commission insisted that it should be made clear to other nations that laws or established business practices in their countries which encourage restrictive price, production or marketing arrangements will limit the willingness of United States businessmen to invest abroad and will reduce the benefits of such investment to other nations. I request that you give appropriate emphasis to this point in connection with relevant governmental policies and in the foreign policy guidance you give to other agencies. Further, I request that you make this position clear to all friendly nations through the normal channels.3 1 Eisenhower's message of March 30, 1954, is in Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1954, pp. 352-64. For background on the commission, chaired by Inland Steel Company executive Clarence B. Randall see no. 170, and for the commission's recommendations see no. 445. See also Kaufman, Trade and Aid, pp. 18-26. 2 For the work of Brownell's committee see ibid., pp. 80-82 and New York Times, June 27, 1953, Jan. 3, 1954. Eisenhower's message to Brownell on this same day is in AWF/A. 3 In an April 29 memorandum, Under Secretary Smith would tell Eisenhower that responsible officials had been notified of the commission's observations regarding the business practices of foreign countries and that "U.S. missions to all friendly nations are being instructed to utilize appropriate opportunities to convey our views on the matter to officials of these governments" (AWF/D-H). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum To John Foster Dulles, 16 April 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 833. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/833.cfm <--PREV Doc #832  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #834

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