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visits of inspectors to German plants would be sufficient and cited
instances of easy evasion of such controls after the first World War.
 
 
In a discussion of the question of what body and international control
should be attached to it, they said that the most important thing was
that it would work in very close touch with  the trade.  A group of
statisticians working in some international center like Geneva before
the war could not accomplish much.  Extremely difficult questions of
interpretation of trade statistics would arise.  The classification
adopted for statistical purposes were a great over-simplification.  The
officials in the control should be in constant touch with trade and
industry and trade associations should be drawn into cooperation.  If
these conditions were fulfilled it would not matter much whether the
control were attached directly to the security organization or were a
part of one of the international economic bodies.  
 
 
Though these officials are not on EIPS we believe that their views on
the necessity for an international control of a specified number of
essential minerals have been adopted