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...Committee on Foreign Aid drafted the working basis for the Marshall Plan. In 1948 Harriman became EGA chief in Europe under Paul Hoffman, and last October-after an interlude as Harry Truman's foreign-relations adviser-he moved in as chief of ECA's successor, the MSA...
...seven-room, $100-a-month house in Brussels, where he lives with his Berlin-born wife Lillie, a Hunter College graduate, and their nine-year-old son. Brown talks to perhaps 75 callers in his 14-hour day, including Russian exiles, contacts inside Communist Parties, European politicians and American MSA officials. He earns $8,750 a year, runs his operation on less than $2,000 a month, has carefully doled out more than $500.000 of A.F.L. money. His staff consists of only two secretaries and a young assistant...
...shipment of arms privately purchased in U.S. by the Indonesian government. The news spread through the gossipy capital of Jakarta that the government had sold out to the Western bloc. "American imperialism!" shouted the politicos. A newspaper published a cartoon showing Subarjo on his knees, offering Indonesian independence to MSA, represented by Ambassador Cochran dressed as a bride with a rope in his hand...
...given a free hand. The skeptical Belgians agreed; Robinson has since set to work injecting U.S. zest and know-how into one of Belgium's oldest and deepest pits-the Good Hope Mine. If he succeeds, and the chances are that he will, MSA hopes to use the "Robinson Experiment" to spark similar coalface production drives throughout Western Europe...
Though ECA is ended, the spending goes on under a new name and with a new purpose. The new outfit (headed by Averell Harriman) is the Mutual Security Agency; key word in MSA is "security" as "economic" was in ECA. In 1952, MSA will spend $6 billion, mostly in arms, in Europe alone. The U.S. taxpayer will hardly notice the difference...