Excerpt from The Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 58: January March, 1968 Five months after the completion of the Kennedy Round, it seems strange to be here in Geneva again discussing our mutual problems in trade. But perhaps it is not so strange when we appreciate the twofold nature of our pil grimage. We are here first to celebrate the past and secondly to map the future. The past is the expanding flow of trade throughout the world under the aegis of the gatt. The past is a series of trade negotiations which has immeasurably reduced the barriers to world commerce. But above all else, the past is the leadership of Eric Wyndham White, the Director General of this great institution. A great deal has already been said both in this room and others about the achievements and contributions of the Director General. Let me add as simply and shortly that I would like to record the deep gratitude of the United States Government to Eric Wyndham White for all that he has done both for our country and for the world over the period of his devoted service. Let me say on a personal basis - as many of my colleagues here could do as well - that without his firm hand, his intuitive sense of timing, and his magical compromises, the Kennedy Round in those last desperate days and hours could have failed - and failed miserably. So much for the past. The Director General would be the first, I believe, to say, Leave off praising our history, let us discuss the present and more particularly the future - both im mediate and in the longer run. Gatt after all should be the place to work. What, therefore, is our future? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.