Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week fast-moving ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman made a fast trip to Europe to try to stop the dismantlement and removal-for reparations-of industrial plants in Western Germany. Eastbound, he rode on the presidential plane with Secretary of State Marshall. ("It was," said Hoffman, "the highest-level hitchhike in history.") Next day he conferred with sprightly Foreign Minister Schuman in Paris; the next, with tired, grumpy Foreign Minister Bevin in London; and a day and a half later, he was back in Washington, holding a press conference. He was natty in a dark blue suit but he needed...
...units from the Anglo-American zones and 233 from the French zone were earmarked for dismantling. Meanwhile, in the U.S. Congress a feeling began to grow that plant removal was a wasteful business, that it might hinder the Marshall Plan and add to the U.S. taxpayer's burden. Hoffman wants to be able to tell Congress next year that waste has been minimized...
...boss, Paul Hoffman, was a happy man. After arguing over the matter for weeks, the 16 Marshall Plan nations and Western Germany agreed among themselves last week on how to whack up ECA's $4,875,000,000 (see INTERNATIONAL). It was one of the few times in recent history that the European nations had agreed on anything. Hoffman dared to hope that that cooperation, born out of desperation, was a milestone on the road to economic sanity...
Administrator Hoffman was reasonably well pleased with the results. Despite mistakes and the awkwardness to be expected in getting any such vast plan started, ECA was generally doing what it was supposed to do. Without ECA, Hoffman declared, France and Italy "would have been in the hands of the Communists six months...
...other nations then called for help to W. Averell Harriman, the Marshall Plan's top man in Europe, who in any case was getting frantic wigwags from EDAdministrator Paul Hoffman in the U.S. Harriman visited the top economic brass in Brussels and London, and finally persuaded Lucius Clay that German-needs, however important, must be subordinated to the interests of the whole. Clearly, however, the first OEEC figure would have to be raised. The final figure agreed on for Bizonia was $414 million, less $10 million in contributed exports...