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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...
...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...
Chief aim of the parley and of the OEEC is to assist the 16 ERP countries to dispense with outside aid by 1952, expiration of the present ERP. The OEEC works with America's Economic Cooperation Administration...
With its prestige secure, the Marshall Plan forged ahead. In France and most other OEEC countries (notably excepting Italy and Greece), the end of the "dole" phase was in sight and the productive phase had begun in earnest. Western Germany was smiling and flexing its muscles as a result of strengthened currency and tempting food to buy with it-Italian tomatoes, Mexican canned beef, Portuguese beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful...