Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Italy's Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella brought something that is currently in short supply in the U.S.: a new, positive foreign-policy idea. Under a plan advanced by Pella, the U.S. and the 17 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation would set up a joint fund for easy-term economic development loans to Middle East countries...
...would contribute to the fund the sums that European countries repay on their Marshall Plan loans; European countries would kick in amounts equal to 20% of their repayments to the U.S. Estimated total available: $100 million a year. In addition, private capital would be encouraged to join in. To manage the fund, the Italians suggested a nine-man international board to be chaired by a representative from...
Without quite rejecting the Italian proposal outright, the State Department raised a couple of negative-thinking objections: 1) the Middle East would look upon the fund as an extension of NATO in spite of everything, 2) European countries would be repaying Marshall Plan loans in their own currencies, so the proposed fund would have no dollars; accordingly the Middle East countries would probably use the loans to buy goods and services from Europe, not from...
...order to share with its NATO partners U.S. know-how in the military uses of atomic energy. It will also propose increased cooperation in scientific education, training and research, with particular emphasis on joint effort in weapons development and manufacture. Likely specific proposals: establishment of a NATO fund for educating budding scientists, establishment of a NATO missiles training and research center, an all-NATO program for exchange of weapons blueprints and designs...
Ford Grant Helps Fund...