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...Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, on a flying trip to Europe, preached the need to end European discrimination against the dollar and for prosperous Europe to do its bit elsewhere. The U.S., having donated or lent $75.8 billion to foreign countries since 1945, could not bear the burden alone, nor could any single nation. ¶ Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, onetime ambassador to Washington, and now chairman of Lloyds Bank, coined a vivid, if not quite precise, name for the new need. Instead of a familiar East-West crisis, he talked of a North-South axis, proposed...
...funnel Western aid through the U.N. itself. NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak suggests that NATO be used for the purpose, but this too meets with opposition-in the minds of touchy beneficiaries, it prompts suspicions of cold-war tactics. In Paris last week, in the wake of Dillon's visit, there were suggestions that an "Atlantic Community Economic Conference" should be convened in the near future...
There are, of course, lucky exceptons: Douglas Dillon and David K. E. Bruce are examples of amateurs who became outstanding professionals. But the rule generally holds: in many important nations American ambassadors have little diplomatic experience, little knowledge of the native language and customs; in short, little qualification for their jobs...
...problem. Last spring he began inviting Administration leaders to conferences and lectures. At first the State Department was horrified at the prospect of revising foreign-aid policy (and some of its staffers still are), but Anderson found a sympathetic listener in Under Secretary (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon, longtime international banker both on Wall Street and in Government and a firm believer in the imperatives of a sound world economic policy. Gradually the President's statements on foreign aid began to soften. By last September, Anderson could bluntly tell the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting...
...final Crimson football practice of the 1959 season ended last night in a dash down a flare-lined aisle outside Dillon Fieldhouse to the accompaniment of the Harvard Band and the hearty applause of a meager huddle of undergraduate well-wishers...