Washington, Apr, 27.
Britain and France have assured the United States that they will "at the earliest possible moment re.urn to liberal commercial policies based on principles of progressive reduction of trade barriers and world rade con. ducted on a multilateral basi the State Department announced here yesterday, The assurances were the result of discussions over a period of weeks between the Allied economic mission to Washing.on and the State Department regarding United States complaints against the severity of the Allied blockade, particularly the blockade against German exports to *he United States, The Allies also assured the United States they would re-examine applications from United States citizens for imports from Germany which were previously rejected, the State Depariment said. The Allies stressed that the trade restrictions were a necessity of war and entirely temporary—United Press,
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