Word: marjolin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says France's Robert Marjolin, "am an international official." He is so international, in fact, that his own countrymen have accused him, behind their hands, of being more European than French. As permanent secretary general (i.e., top man) of OEEC (Organization for European 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...
...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...
...Wonderful Job." Son of a Paris upholsterer, Marjolin left school at 14, worked for six years at office and factory jobs, then entered the Sorbonne. After a year at the Sorbonne, Marjolin won a Rockefeller scholarship for a year's study at Yale. One result of this trip was a treatise entitled "The Evolution of Trade Unionism in the United States from Washington to Roosevelt...
...escaped from occupied France and joined Charles de Gaulle in London. The Free French sent him to wartime Washington where he was the right-hand man of famed Economic Planner Jean Monnet in the French Economic Mission, later headed the French Purchasing Commission. Although a Socialist, Marjolin does not believe in spreading socialism indiscriminately over Europe; he favors letting private enterprise alone where it works well, e.g., in Belgium...
...largely due to Marjolin's energy, patience, faith and quiet charm that OEEC passed an important milestone-apportionment of U.S. aid among the European nations (TIME, Sept. 20). When Averell Harriman heard of it, he called Marjolin on the telephone and blurted, "Bob, you've done a wonderful job." Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps expressed the same sentiment in a letter...