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“Stabilizing” Commodities 103wherever they find it most profitable to do so. They do not mean thefreedom of the plain citizen to raise as much of a given crop as hewishes, to come and go at will, to settle where he pleases, to take hiscapital and other belongings with him. They mean, I suspect, the freedomof bureaucrats to settle these matters for him. And they tell himthat if he docilely obeys the bureaucrats he will be rewarded by a risein his living standards. But if the planners succeed in tying up the ideaof international cooperation with the idea of increased State dominationand control over economic life, the international controls of thefuture seem only too likely to follow the pattern of the past, in whichcase the plain man’s living standards will decline with his liberties.