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...Will Clayton's wife, Susan, begged to contradict her husband's explanation for his bow-out as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (he had said her health demanded it). "There's nothing wrong with me," she informed the press, "except 45 years of my husband's 16-hour working day. ... He was terrifically tired. . . ." On top of that, Clayton hinted that he might head the delegation to the World Trade Conference in Havana this month...
...Paris. Their job had been to lay a practical groundwork under the Marshall Plan. They were in a mellow mood. Their report on the 16 participating nations' reconstruction needs and measures was ready for signing. But their U.S. hosts for the evening (Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas, Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery) soon routed any optimism. For two hours Clayton handed out "friendly advice." The report, he said, would be "unacceptable and unconvincing" to the U.S. public and Congress...
...Clayton told them that the 16 nations must plan more positive steps to increase their own production and pool their own resources. For example, Britain must schedule more coal production, France more wheat. The nations must set up a supervisory body to check up on promises to meet higher production goals. And the "bill" of dollar needs for the next four years, already cut from $29 billion to $20.6 billion, must be cut even further if the plan was to win congressional approval...
...planners for the 16 nations obediently set about to comply with Clayton's wishes. The full committee cut the estimate of dollar needs to about $17 billion, by the simple but uncertain expedient of assuming that U.S. prices would fall. France's delegate, dapper Herve Alphand, emphasized that, in any case, "the figures in our report are by no means a claim or a demand, they are merely an illustration [of what it would cost to reconstruct Western Europe...
...blocks away from the sweating planners in the hothouse, U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery and U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas were in secret session with French Foreign Minister Bidault. Their object: to get Bidault's O.K. for raising the industrial output of the Ruhr. This week, in London, U.S. and British diplomats, meeting more publicly with the French, will try the same thing...