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...involvement in the conflict. In 1940, he headed the Democrats-for-Willkie group. He became a director of a number of topflight U.S. corporations, e.g., Freeport Sulphur Co., Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. In 1948, he served for a year as chief of the ECA mission to The Netherlands and was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Juliana...
...minute radio spots were pre-evaluated for crowd appeal, his comicstrip ads pretested for reader interest. He set up street-corner booths, stocked them with pretty girls, ran off five one-minute movies showing Benton the homebody (his wife showing off his scrapbook), Benton the internationalist (his trip inspecting ECA's Italian projects, aimed at the state's 239,000 Italians), Benton the statesman (flashes of Marshall, Eisenhower and Baruch endorsing his "Marshall Plan of Ideas...
Recently, ECA officials in Austria decided that the country was living beyond its means and was relying too heavily on ECA money. They cut some ECA subsidies; as a result, the Austrian government decided to raise food, coal and electricity prices by an average 30%. It also decided to raise wages, but only by 13%. The Reds saw this measure as a perfect cue to make trouble...
...ECA's Foster, L'Aube went on blithely, became a convert to communism after the Russian Revolution, was a defendant on "criminal syndicalism" charges in 1923, a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1924, 1928 and 1932. By 1946, L'Aube said without further explanation, he was Under Secretary of Commerce, became EGA deputy in 1948 and deputy administrator last year...
...convalescent Paul Hoffman (recently returned from a two-month leave of absence for a gall bladder operation), Harry Truman appointed Hoffman's deputy, William C. Foster, onetime machinery manufacturer who had been Under Secretary of Commerce under Averell Harriman. Hoffman had been disheartened by Congress' insistence that ECA's European currency funds should go for rearmament (although he heartily favored a separate military aid program). Nonetheless, he wrote the President, Bill Foster might well preside over "ECA's period of greatest usefulness...