"Thank you for your letter and memorandum on surplus trading with the underdeveloped countries, which I read with interest. The problem is not so much one of devising schemes, but of suggesting methods to compel irrational governments to adopt them. The main difficulty in your suggestion is that it would surely affect world prices and, consequently, profits. This would be anathema to many capitalist countries, especially the United States, the greatest surplus producing country in the world."