Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Averell Harriman, Belgium's Spaak and some other continental delegates have been seeking to liberalize the arrangement on drawing rights so it would become a greater stimulus to intra-European trade. At one point French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche proposed a compromise, known in OEECese as "40% transferability of drawing rights." Under the Petsche plan, a typical triangular trade situation would have worked out like this...
Stultifying? On the eve of last week's Paris conference ECA's Averell Harriman put the issue thus: "...Success [of the ECA program] would be impossible in a system made up of small, autarchic, uneconomic national trading units, each one dedicated to self-defeating self-sufficiency, each one standing off his neighbor with ingeniously stultifying restrictions...
...change the Intra-European Payments agreement, which runs out this month. Britain's objective was to make the new plan as much like the old as possible. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak and French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche were expected to carry the ball for the liberal Harriman position...
...will relieve Milton Katz '27, professor of Law, who has held the position on an "acting basis" for some months, but who now is reported about to become deputy to W. Averell Harriman, Marshall Plan "roving ambassador...
From July, 1947 to the spring of 1948 Gordon was "almost full time" consultant with the State Department, working on ERP. In August, 1948, he was special assistant to Ambassador Harriman in Paris ECA headquarters...