Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who administer the Marshall Plan in Paris got a shock last week. They had hired a French public opinion expert in July to poll his country on what it thought of American aid, and last week he made his report. According to this poll, most of the French hadn't heard of the Marshall Plan, and those who had didn't particularly like...
...that America is a very friendly and generous country. Most of this convincing has emanated from the various information missions of the Economic Cooperation Administration which pays out Marshall Plan Funds. ECA in France publishes a slick-paper monthly magazine, makes little instructive cartoon movies about the Marshall Plan aid, and runs a traveling agricultural exhibit supposed to convince French farmers that they could use a bright new ECA tractor. Other missions largely duplicate this pattern; all rely heavily on hand-outs to the local press for much of their publicity. Completing the propaganda facilities on our side...
...Economic conditions in Western Europe are still bad, and until they get better the U. S. will have a lot of trouble convincing Europeans that its aid is doing much good...
Radcliffe Student Government Association announced plans yesterday for setting up a permanent and expanding grant-in-aid fund for future deserving and needy undergraduates of the College...
OEEC is staffed by Europeans and administers the Marshall Plan on the European level, deciding how much aid should be allocated to each country. Williams was invited to the meeting of the OEEC by its Secretary General, Robert Marjolin...