Evening star., 1950-07-30

Central Intelligence Agency. Ma
tional Security Resources BoarC
ECA and the State, Defense
Interior and Agriculture.
The group helps with the Sc
curity review of individual case
and the strategic evaluation o
commodities. 1t approves the Pos
tive List of Commodities, which
is broken down into the so-callee
la and 1-B lists.
la Exports Forbidden.
Articles of greatest Importance
are in the la category and may
not be exported to Iron Curtain
countries. They may be shipped
to other countries, under license
however.
Items on the 1-B list, of lesser
Importance, may be exported tt
the Soviet orbit in certain re-
stricted quantities.
An applicant for an American
export license must furnish mucf
specific information and face.
criminal action for Justification
He must describe in detail thu
commodity to be shipped. He mus
name the country in which tht
goods will be consumed and tn,
ultimate conSignee. He must alst
list the names and addresses of al
interested parties (agents, brokers
middlemen, etc. and give speci
f1c details on the end-use of tn,
item to be exported.
Marshall plan nations have
been informed of our Positiv,
List and told why controls ar,
important toathe common security
I'VE meet with the representa-
tives of these countries in in
formal. continuing consultations
formal, continuing consultation
Wright, the State Department!
assistant chief of the Economic
Resources and Security staff, de.
clared. -a "a.
Nations Are Cooperating.
They know what we want anc
We are working, it out on a CO.
operative. mutual defense basis
We don't feel we ought to &c
beyond that" he added.
ct has been reported in some
quarters that the United States
brought the matter of British
oil shipments to the Chinese
Reds to the attention of Lon
don. The shipments were
stopped soon thereafter
Earlier this month, Senate
KEN, quoting data from the Of
flee of international Trade, tol,
his colleagues that during the frs
four months of 1850 Great Britain
shipped to Russia more than 81,
087,000 worth of machine tools,
ten-fold increase over the sam
period last year.
He listed in detail the amount
of machinery, ball bearings, steel
mill products. electrical goods, an,
even arms, sent to the Soviet an,
its satellites by Britain. Belgium
France and Luxembourg.
The Senator stressed the i'm
portance of machine tools an,
Senator Flanders, Republican, O
Vermont, a machine-tool manu-
facturer, supported him in prin
ciple.
II should like to enunciate, sil
a profound truth, which is tha
the only inanimate thing which
reproduces itself is machin
tool" Senator Flanders said.
Robert N. Golding, ECA con.
sultant and former general coun
sci of the Congressional ECL
watchdog committee, had an ex
planation.
Some Tools Nom Strategic.
There are strategic machin.
tools and non-strategic machin,
TOOLS" he declared. "Why, W,
have some we'd be willing to shi,
to Russia today if she wanted
them"
He insisted that before one be
came alarmed over a line in ;
trade report that a general item
had been shipped one should try
to ascertain specifically what tn,
item was.
For all we know the electrical
goods sent to the Soviet orbit by
the Western Europeans nigh
have been light bulbs."
Mr.. Golding conceded, however
that We don't get very complete
information On what the Marshal
plan countries ship.
In an interview at his Office, Mr.
Goldlng expounded on the mean
ing of East West trade for the re.
covery of Europe. Last year i
totaled $2.6 billion.
If the Marshall plan co1ntrie,