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Last week President Eisenhower reestablished the 13-member International Development Advisory Board, originally set up in 1950. Chairman (appointed by Truman, reappointed by Eisenhower): Eric A. Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Mission: to advise Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen on technical assistance (Point Four) programs and policies...
...their intense surprise, it turned out that Dulles had done nothing of the sort. Harold Stassen, whose Foreign Operations Administration took over the aid programs formerly under the State Department, set himself to carry out Policymaker Dulles' plans, responded promptly when State asked for $45 million for Iran and $385 million for the Indo-China...
State Department men found that they could give foreign-aid administrators policy guidance on a long-term basis; they would check a few months later and find their guidance still controlling Stassen's operation. This is one of the most amazing, and perhaps the most important, facts of Eisenhower's Washington. Operations are necessarily conducted by specialists after the work has been broken into parts. Policy made at the operational level is apt to be fragmentary, uncoordinated, contradictory. Between them, Dulles and Stassen are demonstrating that what Washington for 20 years thought was a law of administrative life...
...thousand Americans in Paris were using-with wry distaste-a new verb last week. The word is riffed. It means to be fired for economy, and it comes from the bureaucratic phrase Reduction In Force, the new Dulles-Stassen program to cut down expenses in the agencies that hand out U.S. aid overseas. Last June Congress directed Foreign Operations Director Harold Stassen to 1) fire 10% of the old Mutual Security Agency staff; 2) slash by a third the number of jobholders getting $12,000 a year or more...
Paris, which a year ago had four U.S. officials with the rank of ambassador,* and was crowded with proliferating U.S. missions to NATO, EDC and OEEC, was the obvious place to begin. The State Department cut its staff 30%. Stassen also set to work. Half a dozen special agencies were lumped into one big U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations (USRO). Two hundred Americans and 437 French employees were riffed in the process; the savings would cut USRO's administrative expenses in Paris by 50%. Other Americans suffered drastic cuts in what...