of trade versus aid,Sen.Robertson in foreign affairs. ' In a speech at Southwest Vir ginia last week, during the lull between the inauguration and President Eisenhower's first ad dress before the Congress week. Senator Robertson reaffirmed his position on the matter He writes "In that speech I emphasized tlie importance to Southwest Vir ginia. as well as other areas, of a healthy program of foreign Hade 1 pointed out that the plan of "trade and not aid" now being advocated by a Republican Presi / dent had long been sound Demo cratic doctrine and that I had actively supported this program since it was initiated by Cordell Hull in 1934. "My immediate personal in terest in this subject centers around the meeting of the Inter national Wheat Council which opened in Washington on Friday. Jan. 30. This is a continuation of discussion started in London laJ April by the forty-six nations participating in the International Wheat Agreement of 1949 "More than two thirds of the world's wheat trade is bring car ried on under this agreement, which set the maximum price which the lour exporting nations 'Canada. Australia. France and the United States* could charge and a minimum price which the forty - two importing countries would pay. with a free market be tween those limits.

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