W. Averell Harriman
Document date: 10 January 1980Identity Statement
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Carr, Mary
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HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY
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Two interviews with Averell Harriman, Ambassador to Britain, Secretary of Commerce, European Administrator of Marshall Plan and Chairman of a Committee of NATO, US Representative in Europe under ECA, 1948 with rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1948-50, Special assistant to the President, 1950-51, refers to Harriman Committee which helped allocate Marshall Plan funds, and the concept of the unification of Europe at the time, was that it would first contribute to economic unification then hoped for military unity and finally a political unity. Believed that it was EPU which made the Marshall Plan a success, US looked upon military integration and economic integration as supporting each other.
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