Word: oeec
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Remarkable symbolism, that," observed Alexandre Verdelis, Greek delegate to OEEC, who watched Gaillard. "He collects fragments of English 'Players,' French 'Gauloises,' American 'Chesterfields,' sweet Turkish and powdery Belgian cigarettes. He puts them all together and rolls a smoke that is undoubtedly harmonious...
What the Wise Men Said. Last month, EGA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman declared that OEEC must take on the job of whacking up U.S. aid among the various Marshall Plan countries. So a four-man committee (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Italy) locked itself in a solitary villa near Paris, to make suggestions about how the $4,875,000,000 for ECA's first year should be divided...
Last week, the "four wise men" (as they were dubbed) submitted their suggestions to OEEC's full council. The biggest slice was to go to Britain (more than one and a quarter billion dollars); next was France (about $1 billion) ; Italy (about $600 million). Most of the beneficiaries felt that the portions had been fairly worked out. Most troublesome dissenters were the Greeks (down for a reported $150 million) and the U.S. representatives of Western Germany (down for $350 million...
Some gloomy reports from Paris last week said that European cooperation had been foiled and that the OEEC would have to ask Washington to slice the ECA pie. That, said one high OEEC official (an earnest Frenchman), was out of the question. "To admit to the Americans that we are incapable of dividing among ourselves the aid which they are giving to Europe would be an admission of European childishness-or decadence-which would make us all in this building very unhappy...
...Frame. Then Hoffman sat down to drive his points home to the men who could act on them. Britain was represented by Sir Stafford Cripps, Belgium by Premier Paul-Henri Spaak (who is also OEEC chairman), the other Marshall Plan countries by men of cabinet or ambassadorial rank. The U.S. people, Hoffman told them, expected the European nations to carry out their pledges of joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot...