NARA, TRUMAN LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES NATIONALES (FRANCE)

File concerning the effects of the Marshall Plan on France and how the funds were applied to the programme as laid down by the Monnet Plan, includes, report by ECA, Special Mission to France, entitled "European Recovery Program - France 1948", details aims of programme. - Material on need for reduction of prices in France in order to abate political and social unrest. - Letter to Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Secy-Gen of the Comité Inter-Ministeriel pour les Questions de Cooperation Economique Europeene, from David Bruce, US Ambassador to France, highlighting the importance of the review and co-ordination of investment projects as one of the most important functions of both the European and American organisations responsible for the ERP. - Letter to Robert Marjolin, Secretary General of OEEC from Milton Katz, Acting Deputy US SRE, regarding recommendations of OEEC Steel Committee. - Confidential telegram from ECA office of US Special Representative to Dulles regarding their recommendation to OEEC for approval of Sollac project. Details of conversation between John Snyder, US Treasury Secretary and Maurice Petsche, French Minister of Finance regarding the latters conclusions that the completion of the French recovery effort and possibility of real European economic co-operation were subordinated to the solution of the exchange rate problem in particular sterling. - Summary of French investment programme for 1950 as part of Modernisation and Equipment Plan. - Report from William Tomlinson to Ambassador Harriman regarding counterpart non release for 1949 investment expenditures due to inflationary borrowing by French Treasury. - Memo on major steel problems facing the Schuman Plan. Letter from David Bruce to Robert Schuman, Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the agreement between US and France of June 1948, Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement amended to Muutual Defense assistance in Indochina and enactment by Congress of Mutual Security Act, 1951, Bruce asked if the provisions of Act were acceptable to the French Governement. - Telegram for Paris Embassy regarding the second Monnet Plan, and Jean Monnet's resignation from the Commissariat General du Plan, which opened debates on the terms of the future existence of the Plan. - Summary of main chapters of the report on the results achieved in 1952 in the execution of the French modernisation and re-equipment plan.

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