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Norman Collisson, 47, stocky, go-getting industrial engineer (onetime chief power engineer, American Gas & Electric Co.), was the hard-working chief of ECA's mission to Germany's Bizonia. As a Navy captain, he had a peculiar wartime job: running strikebound plants (York Safe and Lock, some 60 oil refineries) seized by the Navy. Now he was trying to tap Bizonia's vitally needed industry. "Western Europe," he said, "is like a machine that has run way down. Part needs oiling, part replacing, part overhauling. Before this machine can achieve top efficiency again, every single piece must...
David Bruce, 50, hale and pink-cheeked, directed ECA's mission to France. Onetime son-in-law (now divorced) of Andrew Mellon, a prudent man of varied experience (law, A.E.F., consular service, banking, corporate affairs.* Red Cross, OSS, Virginia legislature, U.S. Department of Commerce), Bruce had become bound up, to the exclusion of almost everything else in his thinking and feeling, with the problems, virtues and defects of France...
...Annex overlooking the Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...
Thomas Finletter, 55, a Philadelphia-born Wall Street lawyer (son and grandson of judges) with a trigger-quick mind, served as ECA's chief in Britain. Reticent, hardheaded and caustic-humored, Finletter has been called "the little acid drop." The British did not mind his sharpness. Said one appreciative Whitehaller, lifting his eyes to the ceiling: "If only all the people we had to deal with were like Finletter...
...help had not resolved Holland's overseas mercantile problem-how to restore trade with Indonesia and her once lucrative transoceanic shipping in general. But ECA's pressure had helped bring about one solid achievement long dreamed by the Dutch: economic union with their Benelux neighbors, the Belgians and Lux-embourgers...