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Show 1R1GHT TO TRADE IN i RUSSIA IS DENUMED j Writ of Mandamus Suggested as Means to Settle Problem i; of Commerce I NEW YORK, Feb. 2. A suggestion j ! that the American Commercial asso- f; ciation to promote trade with Russia j, j apply to the United States supreme J court for .1 writ of mandamus compelling com-pelling the state department to permit I ! American firms to trade with Russia tj was made by Dudley Field Malone at I an organization meeting of the asso-j asso-j ciation here today. '' ; Malone, who has acted as counsel ! for Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, "sovlex. 1 embassador" to the United States, said 1 Ihe was representing the Lehigh ma-! ma-! chine company of Loighton, Pa., j American firms, he said, could trade 1 with Germany although the United j States was at war with Germany but could not trade with soviet Russia t; with which thi3 country had not been (at war. j Action on Malone's suggestion as 'well as on another that nnother trade 'commission be sent to Russia was. I postponed to await permanent organi' zatlon of the association which was ! informed temporarily in Washington J January 21. 1 no ' |