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,/ Y'?:- ' L- Mr* Edwin Sherratt, . Wm Consumer Mews, 164 Duane Street, Wew York, 13, Mew York* Soar Mr* Sherr&tti Yourletter of July 11 1946, expressing ooaoam regarding commercial standards and simplified trade practice work in the Department of . Commerce, has been received; Our program in this field la rather extensive and so far-reachlng in scope that I believe a personal conference with Dr* Philip |L Hauser, one of my assistants, would be of more informational value to you and your paper than to attempt to explain the whole plan in a letter* It is my , hope that the next time you are in Washington you will make arrangements to disouss this question with Dr* Hauser, who is located in Room 5847, Commerce Building* telephone Digtrlot 2200, Extension 1626* I should like to assure you, howevsr, that so far as tjtie general policy of the Department is concerned, we hare no intention of withdrawing from this field, but rather expect to promote the further development of volxmtaxy standardisation through the activities of the Department itself and through cooperation with other interested groups and organisations* This policy is stated in more detail in my comments on the Policy Committee report earlier this year, a copy of which is enclosed* \ Sincerely yours. HWFrase/fsp 7/18/46 Rewritten IBN/fmn 7/22/46 -* , v,, ,, n,,**t98SMa ''tfCTO DR. HAUSER V