U.S. Farmers Must Buy More Abroad To Retain Markets
(10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 5. President Truman tonight warned American farmers that the United States will be unable to maintain oversea markets for farm products unless it bought more from foreign countries.
President Truman, in making a Labour Day speech in Des Moines, lowa, uttered a warning to the American ex-servicemen’s convention in the heart of the Middle West farm country. He said that stability and progress of United States agriculture was important to the whole world. Foreign markets were essential for many of its farm products but foreign trade was not a one-way street. ' “There will be tremendous benefits for us in rising living standards in more prosperous world economies and closer ties between nations if we buy more from other nations.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 6 September 1949, Page 5
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