Word: eca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appropriation for the second year of Paul Hoffman's ECA, which finances and administers the Marshall Plan, is still kicking around in committee. The bill is three months overdue for approval. It is about time for it to be passed...
...hand in dealing with his own people and with the outside world. Although President Truman and the State Department disclaim all responsibility for such overtures, a goodly number of Congressmen and military leaders backs cooperation with Spain for various strategic, economic, and religious reasons. Motions to include Spain in ECA and the arms program mustered considerable Congressional support...
...known that the British were veering toward a practical, circumspect approach. They were inclined to ask for only a little now in the way of special help from the U.S., in the hope of more later. Specifically, they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape, and permission to save dollars by discriminating more freely against certain imports from the U.S. (i.e., buying...
Secretary John Snyder; the bleeding heart, carried by State's Dean Acheson; and the beating heart, displayed by ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman...
...ECA Chief Paul Hoffman, who will take part in the conference, struck a balance between Snyder and Acheson...