Our countries have been alienated from each other for years, and both the Soviet and the American economies have lost many brilliant opportunities. Alienation is evil. Besides, economic contacts provide the material basis for political rapprochement. Economic contacts create mutual interests helpful in politics. But the United States has created many obstacles in the economic field.
We do still import grain - but rather to keep up trade. It may die otherwise. But we may soon need no grain imports at all. And Soviet-American trade in other goods is practically nonexistent. As soon as some Soviet goods penetrated the American market, the United States anxiously started to take measures to prohibit or at least limit trade. There are legal acts galore in America which prevent trade with the Soviet Union from developing.
MYR CONVENTION!