Word: oeec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many months OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) has struggled to find some basis for a "master plan" leading to economic integration of Europe. Under such a plan, imports, exports, currency exchange, allotment of manufactures, purchases of raw materials, etc.. would be geared together. But the conflict of economic philosophies and, especially, nationalism made any actual formulation of a plan seem remote. Last week, at a meeting near Paris of OEEC's eight-nation steering committee, the plan was abandoned...
...Said OEEC's secretary general, Robert Marjolin of France: "It would be a vain task to attempt to write a new long-term program . . . until such time as the participating countries make certain fundamental political-economic changes . . . When these adjustments are made . . . without doubt we shall again decide to project in figures this mutuality of national policies ... To do it now would be pointless labor...
Thus was written off-or indefinitely postponed-what many had hoped would be the chief long-range result of U.S. aid to Western Europe. The OEEC turned its back on European integration to face a less important but more urgent task: how to become independent...
...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...
...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...