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...Economic Cooperation), boyish, 37-year-old Robert Marjolin is in the first rank of a new group of civil servants, whose master is not a state but the idea of international cooperation. Last week he arrived in Washington with 18 French, British, Dutch, Belgian and Austrian aides to help ECA put its case to the 81st Congress, from which the Marshall Planners want $4.5 billion for the next year...
...page report which ECA is readying for Congress will be a U.S. product. But ECA's Assistant Deputy Administrator Richard Bissell wants the benefit of Marjolin's experience while the report is reaching final form. Marjolin's admiring colleagues sometimes call him The Brain...
...week's end the Communists had set a time limit for a separate surrender of Peiping. With the fall of Tientsin, ECA cut off flour and wheat shipments to Nationalist China under a "watch and see" policy. Red capture of the city freed an estimated 150,000 Communist troops for new operations. It also gave them a direct rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east...
...home without fail, Jessie ordered engraved invitations for their first big party in four years. A few days before it was to be given, C.E. called her from the office and told her she would have to give it alone. He had been asked to go to Germany for ECA and report back on what should be done with German plants. Mrs. Wilson called off the party, packed a suitcase with chipped beef and peanuts, and went with him. (She thriftily considered scratching out the date on the invitations for possible future use. The engraver didn't think...
Tenacious William C. Bullitt, Franklin Roosevelt's onetime ambassador to Moscow and Paris, had been sent to China by a congressional committee to check on U.S. aid to China. He applauded ECA's China mission, headed by San Francisco's ex-Mayor Roger Lapham, "for the excellent work it has done." But Bullitt was firmly convinced that U.S. economic and military aid would delay, but not prevent further Communist advances...