Word: eca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Making OEEC, now mainly an advisory body, ECA's chosen instrument of integration, with clear responsibilities and enough political weight to compel member nations to abide by its decisions. One important step toward this goal: appointment of a strong OEEC secretary (possible candidates: Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, now ambassador to the U.S., and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, first President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe...
...Vicious Cycle. He came to talk to OEEC (ECA's European governing body consisting of representatives of all the Marshall Plan participants) about Western Europe's economic integration. That, in addition to Western Europe's economic revival, had been an objective of the Marshall Plan. Revival had been spectacularly accomplished; integration had so far failed. Paul Hoffman explained why integration was necessary...
...survived it. The issue was whether or not to lift the anti-inflation wage controls to give a bonus to the lowest income groups, in compensation for rising prices. The inflation in France is considerable, but the country is in relatively good shape in spite of it., thanks to ECA aid and to the initiative of her own industry. Production now equals that in the highest prewar year...
Italian politics have quieted down since the critical elections last year, but the marks of the fracas are everywhere. The Communists apparently cornered the nation's white paint supply--every available wall space is still daubed with "Viva Il Partito Communisto" and the slogan "Peace, Work, and Liberty." ECA, which is financing reconstruction projects all over Italy, has cashed in on the party line. Its slogan is "Peace and Work...
Another optimistic faculty expert, perhaps even more optimistic than Professor Williams is Dean Edward S. Mason of the School of Public Administration. Mason is also professor of Economics and an ECA consultant...