Word: eca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress would create a new Cabinet post, the Secretary of Administration, who would supervise some of Washington's most important independent agencies, such as the Bureau of the Budget, the Civil Service Commission, the Atomic Energy Commission, ECA. And the Vice President would be this new tenth member of the Cabinet...
...Hoffman declared that OEEC must take on the job of whacking up U.S. aid among the various Marshall Plan countries. So a four-man committee (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Italy) locked itself in a solitary villa near Paris, to make suggestions about how the $4,875,000,000 for ECA's first year should be divided...
Some gloomy reports from Paris last week said that European cooperation had been foiled and that the OEEC would have to ask Washington to slice the ECA pie. That, said one high OEEC official (an earnest Frenchman), was out of the question. "To admit to the Americans that we are incapable of dividing among ourselves the aid which they are giving to Europe would be an admission of European childishness-or decadence-which would make us all in this building very unhappy...
...Washington, Dennis A. FitzGerald, chief of ECA's food division, hopefully predicted that the unexpected production would permit "appreciably larger" grain exports to Europe. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer took sharp exception. Said he: "The emphasis is now on recovery, not on relief . . . It may now be time to give some attention to the interests of the American housewife...
Hoffman briskly nailed down the Communists' long-standing charge that ECA was a U.S. plot to divide Europe, by urging "the greatest possible stimulation of trade" between Western and Eastern Europe (except for military items). He underlined his point by allotting ECA dollar credits for purchases in Czechoslovakia and Finland. Asked about Polish coal and Yugoslav lumber, Hoffman answered: "We want you to buy in Europe, whether or not it's behind the Iron Curtain...