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923; Milward,
The Reconstruction of Western Europe,
5689; and
Hogan, Marshall Plan,
6087.
10. Bullock,
Bevin,
42838. Robert Marjolin, in describing the confusion at the CEEC, tells an amusing story of a Greek delegate who completely fabricated the figures on national production that were destined for the CEEC report, and that would provide the basis for a request to the United States for assistance (
Memoirs,
18485).
11. See, for example, the conversations on the subject in the State Department's Committee on the European Recovery Program (CERP), August 12, 1947, NARA, RG 59, 840.50 Recovery, box 5732. Also Alphand to European embassies, August 8, 1947, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 130.
12. Caffery to Lovett, July 27, 1947, NARA, RG 59, 840.50 Recovery, box 5730. See also report of U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Kirk, on Dutch and Belgian fears of French national targets: Kirk to State, July 18 and 19, 1947, same file. Ultimately, the Franco-Benelux differences on German recovery were tentatively resolved in a document called "Problems Relating to Germany," hammered out at the end of August, in which French security concerns and Europe's dependence on German economic activity were given equal weight. Caffery to State, August 27, 1947, NARA, RG 59, 840.50 Recovery, box 5733.
13. This shift of strategy is evident in the long discussion on this subject in the Interdepartmental Committee on the Marshall Plan, during which Lovett characterized the work of the Europeans as "extremely disappointing" (Minutes, September 9, 1947, Truman Library, Clark Clifford Papers, box 4). For further evidence of American frustration with the CEEC, see Clayton to Lovett, August 15, 1947, NARA, RG 59, 840.50 Recovery, box 5733; and Lovett to officers in Europe, September 7, 1947, NARA, RG 59, 840.50 Recovery, box 5735.
14. Van der Beugel,
From Marshall Aid,
82.
15. Committee of European Economic Cooperation,
General Report
(vol. 1), and
Technical Report
(vol. 2).
16. Massigli to Paris, two telegrams, both July 16, 1947, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 399.
17. Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Documents on Germany,
"Revised Plan for Level of Industry in the Anglo-American Zones," August 29, 1947, 23945. Steel was the key component here: annual production of steel would be raised from 5.8 million tons to 10.7 million tons.
18. A point that Hervé Alphand, director of the Office of Economic and Financial Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, made to Bidault, July 17, 1947 (Bidault papers, AN, 457 AP, box 20).
19. Memorandum of Conversation, Bonnet, Marshall, H. Freeman Matthews, July 21, 1947; and Matthews to Marshall, July 21, 1947, NARA, Lot 53 D 246, box 2.
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