Word: pawleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was a big program to sell to Washington in the six weeks before Bogotá. Bill Pawley thought he could...
...Washington on sick leave, well-tailored William Pawley dropped in on Secretary Marshall. Bluntly, the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil told his boss that things were going badly in Latin America. The latinos were sore because they felt that the U.S. was neglecting them in favor of Europe, and something ought to be done to straighten things out before next month's Pan American Conference in Bogot...
Secretary Marshall's answer was prompt. "O.K., Bill," he said to Pawley. "You're elected...
Cutting short his sick leave, Bill Pawley went to work. His first step was to document the big fact that the U.S. had failed to get across to latinos: that ERP means U.S. dollars in the Latin American pocket. Assuming that Congress approves the ERP program of buying in Latin America, the latinos will be invited to ship something like $1½ billion of foodstuffs and raw materials to Europe by July 1, 1949. Bill Pawley could point to this breakdown...
Even such sums, spent for agriculture, would probably not satisfy the Latin Americans, who also want dollars to help them build industry. In preparation for Bogota, therefore, Bill Pawley hoped to sell the U.S. State Department the Colombian scheme for a U.S.-financed Inter-American bank to make hemispheric-development loans...