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Show CLOSE TRADE BONDS URGED FOR U. S, -JNyRITAllL 9 Economic Commission to Settle Business Rela- tions, Is Plan. By Assoclste, Press. I IA .OV. 21. nusinrsie" nin i j the United States are urged by the dt-I dt-I rectors of the American Chamber of Com-! Com-! merce In London to endeavor to Induce I the Oil ted Htates congress promptly to create an American reconstruct ion commission com-mission to deal with the economic relations rela-tions between America and Great Britain. This proposed commission, asserts the ststement Issued by the directors of the American Chamber of Commerce here, should contain a strong representation of men Of sound experience and Judgment In mattera of foreign policy and trade and should have authority to proceed to act i at once with similar bodieg of Great Britain and other countries at war with the central powers. The time has come for the business communities of the Flitted Htatee to for-mulste for-mulste sn after-war policy, says the statement. The American chainiier is prompted to make this recommendation because it believes the establishment of friendly trade relations between Kngllsh-sHking Kngllsh-sHking peoples and the removal of all businss distrust and suspicion are essential es-sential in a successful and permanent li-HKue ef MUum The chamber also points out that the, restrictions which have been Impoeed ; upon Americas tuirie with Great Br Ham 'have led to the tel1ef In one country that they directly lienefit the other." This situation, the chamber bhs. inevitably raises the Issue wiih Great Britain. "Nothing." It adds, "would suit Germany i better than to breM discord out of them. Nothing this chamber believes Is more i Important to the future of the world than good na Hired dju-itment of these Issues between the KiiKltsh-speaklng peoples." It Is none too soon, says the chsmber. for the Cnited Htates and Ma allies to sgree upon a plan for the equitable disposition dis-position of all raw material so as to reconstitute re-constitute the storks depleted by the wastage of wsr and by the criminal folly I of German submarines. ' "Another matter urgently calling for Joint action la that of dual Income tax assessment," says the American chamber cham-ber s statement. "Not only does the present pres-ent situation work unjust hardship on individuals in-dividuals of both nationalities hut It also practically prohibits the employment of the capital of one country In the enterprise enter-prise of the other, and is thus a strong deterrent to all cooperation between them ln the work of reconstruction." One of the first purposes to be aimed at In proposed after-war trade reconstruction reconstruc-tion should be the restoration of private Initiative and business, says the American Amer-ican chamber. The chamber, however, realises that government control over virtually vir-tually every form of activity cannot be relaxed immediately upon the end of the war but It asserts that the revival of private enterprises is of supreme importance import-ance to the-future. |