International Cooperation on Natural Raw Materials THE need for setting up workable international machinery for allocating scarce natural raw materials, and to some extent for determining their price, is now widely recognized. Appropriate steps are being taken to bring these knotty questions out in the open where they belong. Few will deny that scarce natural raw materials constitute the number one bottleneck in the mobilization effort of the western world designed to meet aggression from the East. Despite recognized difficulties, it is entirely possible to build additional plant capacity to produce most manufactured goods now in short supply. Likewise manpower, though scarce and likely to become scarcer as industrial mobilization gains full momentum, is not an unsolvable problem, provided a reasonable amount of intelligence is used. Unfortunately, the possibility of increasing supplies of many natural raw materials is not promising. Hence the need for rationing and careful control of the limited quantities available. The international ...
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WALTER J. MURPHY (1951) studied this question.