Revised Remarks for President Littlefield International Trade Luncheon, May 18, 1956 Ladies and Gentlemen: Today marks another opportunity for San Franciscans to join the rest of the nation in honoring the great forces of world trade, one of the lifelines of our existance. It gives us justification to pause for a moment and pay tribute to the ships and the men, the imagination and the enterprise, that go into the far-reaching business of satisfying the world's needs...and those of our own people. World Trade Week, now being celebrated concurrently with the Golden Gate Trade and Maritime Festival, was conceived some twenty-one years ago for the purpose of drawing public attention to the value and absolute need of two-way trade between the United States and other countries of the world. San Francisco, one of the ranking ports of the nation, has programmed, each year, an interesting and informative series of World Trade Week events in which all citizens may participate... and from which all citizens may glean some of the precepts championed by those of us who believe that freedom of trade throughout the world is the oil that speeds the machinery of peace. Today's luncheon is our major commemoration, this year, of the importance of world commerce through the Golden Gate, and I am happy to see so many of you here. We have an extremely interesting program...an unusual array of honored guests..and, as principal speaker, one of the country's experts in international trade and monetary matters. (more)