Remarks for International Trade Luncheon Page 2 We hope that from today's event...and from others this week... your understanding will be broadened in this matter of international trade's importance...of its good for the world, and for all of the world's people. In these times of international tension, world trade assumes a special political significance, you know. It is a powerful force, binding together the peoples of the world in an economic web they cannot escape. It is a benificent web...a web of hope and solidarity: when people trade with one another, they do not fight one another. World trade is an enriching force...it brings out the best each nation has to offer...it makes for maximum efficient use of resources and productive ability; in toto, maximum world trade means the most efficient operation of the world's plant. It is not only the device through which useful goods produced in one country; are made available to consumers in another...it is also the means through which the needs of people in one country are translated into merchandise orders--and therefore jobs--in another country. Trade connects employment, production and consumption; and facilitates all three. Its increase means more jobs, more wealth produced, more goods to be enjoyed by all. * * * Now, it is my pleasure to introduce the honored guests at our head table (see Head Table list). ### This may seem especially artificial to you -- but it isn't. Try it again & again, obtaining all pause, until you finally feel it's natural. (All of these pause are designed to give emphasis to the thought or word immediately preceding Walt