Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who administer the Marshall Plan in Paris got a shock last week. They had hired a French public opinion expert in July to poll his country on what it thought of American aid, and last week he made his report. According to this poll, most of the French hadn't heard of the Marshall Plan, and those who had didn't particularly like...
...agencies in Western Europe have put on a concentrated campaign to convince Europeans that America is a very friendly and generous country. Most of this convincing has emanated from the various information missions of the Economic Cooperation Administration which pays out Marshall Plan Funds. ECA in France publishes a slick-paper monthly magazine, makes little instructive cartoon movies about the Marshall Plan aid, and runs a traveling agricultural exhibit supposed to convince French farmers that they could use a bright new ECA tractor. Other missions largely duplicate this pattern; all rely heavily on hand-outs to the local press...
...personnel, has now taken upon itself the task of checking on the entirely legal comings and goings of private citizens. Why does the Navy concern itself with the political activity of persons not in the Armed Services? How does the Navy--or possibly some other government agency--plan to use this information gathered at the expense of individual privacy...
...only four years old but has started to play with fire again. Last week the UN General Assembly voted to put into action the third part of the 1947 Palestine plan. Under the program the Trusteeship Council will internationalize Jerusalem, with the U.N. in control. This is a proper solution to a peace-disturbing problem, if the UN can put the plan into effect...
Williams has made two previous trips to Paris in connection with the Marshall Plan. The first was in November 1948 for the OEES and the second was in May and June of this year as an adviser for the Economic Cooperation Administration. He will return in time for his second-term classes...