In his address to American business leaders in Washington, Leonid Brezhnev presented a remarkably candid and winning rationale for the new Soviet attitude toward the U.S. Excerpts:
The old Russian merchants used to carry their goods to Persia and sell them there and buy Persian goods and bring them back to Russia. That was the basis for friendship, even in those days, between those two countries . . . Without trade no normal relations between any two countries are possible.
All [modern conditions] serve to raise interest in mutually advantageous exchanges, [which] mean trade and cooperation. And that feeling is growing in all...
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