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Washington D. C. As Viewed

By Tour Senator,

A. Willis Robertson

INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF CONTROLS PROBLEM

This week the Banking and Currency Committee tackled the difficult question of what to do about economic controls. The schedule of our hearings, which probably will continue for several week, called for preliminary testimony from government officials on the economic problems facing the nation. Next we will get the opinions of businessmen, labor organization, trade associations and other private individuals or groups and finally we will hear from federal officials who will present the Administration’s official position on the subject.

It Ift generally agreed that under present conditions there is no need for continuing active wage and price controls or even many of the material and production controls due to expire in June. The question is, however, whether or not we should put on the books a new stand-by control law^that could be used quickly in an

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