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...Washington, ECA's boss Paul Hoffman continued energetically taking his first quick EGA steps. He made an official appointment. He named Dr. Dennis A. FitzGerald, gaunt, able director of the Department of Agriculture's Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, as chief of ECA's food division. "He's probably the greatest authority on food procurement and distribution in the world," Hoffman said. FitzGerald came to Washington 13 years ago from Iowa State College...
That night he got down to work on ECA's program. He was embarrassed by his lack of information. He made a frantic telephone call for help to his close friend Maurice T. Moore, Manhattan lawyer and Studebaker director...
Oath of Office. The State Department had requisitioned five floors for ECA in Washington's new Maiatico Building on Connecticut Avenue. From Capitol Hill Congress watched jealously, suspicious of State's activities, determined to squash any signs of State Department influence over ECA. House Appropriations Committee Chairman John Taber was already complaining that State had loaded ECA with "expensive furniture." Hoffman was beginning to get an idea of some of the pitfalls...
Thursday morning at 7, he breakfasted with Moore and Wayne Taylor. Calvin Hoover arrived. A blonde secretary arrived. ECA began to hum. Hoffman rushed off to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett, met Moore and the others later in the old State Department building, where they took possession of four high-ceilinged rooms which had once been the suite of General John Pershing...
Last week, to help them get the ingredient of truth, a topflight German newsman, Erik Reger, was in the U.S. to report on ECA and the U.N. A group of U.S. newspapers and the Columbia network had sponsored Reger's trip, after hearing of the good job he did in covering the last London conference...