The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-28
businessmen OF
'EURgPEGOMING HERE
Great international Trade
Conference to Be Held
in Atlantic City.

WASHINGTON, July %. - Invita-
Hons extended by the Chamber Of
Commerce of the United States to
Great Britain, France, Italy and Bel
Elum for joint Commercial Mission
TO visit this country in the fall have
been accepted. This was announced
today at the Washington offices of the
Chamber. Elliot H. Goodwin, general
bec1etary of the chamber, and Ben H.
Lambe, associate editor of the Ma
tons Business, arrived in London to-
Jay to complete final arrangements.
The Missions are due TO reach tho
United States the latter part of Sep
lember 10 participate, at Atlantic City,
turing the week of September 20, in an
International Trade Confereuss. This
conference will be attended, accord
ing 70 present plans, by at least a
thousand leaders in American bust
ness, who In meetings with members
Of the Missions will discuss many
phases of international trade relations
At the conclusion of the International
Trade Conference the plan is for the
Missions to tour the country, visiting
the CHIEF industrial and commercial!
renters. The return to Europe will be
about November l.
On the tour, which will be conduct.
I'd Under the auspices of the National
Chamber and its member Organiza
ions the Missions, through confer
snces and public meetings, will inform
American business men Of the par
they can take in the rehabilitation of
Europe.
At least two of the Missions will be
headed by cabinet members and a gov
ernmept representative will accom-
pany each. Each Mission will include
i've principals and number OF as
sistants and secretaries, making I
party altogether of from fifty to sixty.
The government departments at Wash
ington are cooperating with the Ma
tional Chamber in arranging for thu
Missions stay in the United State.
The main purpose of the visit anj
OF the international Trade Confer
ence TO be held at Atlantic City Is t.
acquaint American business men WITH.
the situation abroad and TO bring
about closer relations between thi,
country and her European associates
In the war. 1t is felt that unless thg
European countries can beSin pro-
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with a serious danger in that they may
not be able to pay for food and cloth :
Ing which they need to support life it.
self that it may be impossible for
them. to reduce their war debt and that
there may be grave danger OF social
and political upheavals.
The United States, it is pointed out,
has a very deep concern in these pos e.
sibilities because It has been shown
that serious social disturbances in Eu-
rope have reaction in America II
Europe should not get back on its feet
commercially and industrialIy in the
near future, American business men
believe 1t would mean American bust
ness would lose all chance for Euro
pean market for the export surplus o.
manufactured goods which it is be-
Iieyed Will be available in the United
States as soon as stocks depleted by
war have been replaced.
American must concern itself, it is
pointed out, in bringing exchange
back TO normal as a means of keeping
up the volume of export and imporr
trade. Business leaders believe the
best American business policy, there
fore, is to give Europe the kind Of
business assistance of which it stands
most in need and to refrain from ac-
ton which would tend to prevent it
from resuming its own production.
AZ Atlantic City all of these ques-