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The Organization for European Economic Cooperation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Lincoln Gordon
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In corridor and dining-room conversations during the past eight years among national representatives and Secretariat officials in the handsome Chateau de la Muette on the western edge of Paris, it has often been boasted that the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) is the most successful of the many postwar experiments in international organization. The boast is supported with a variety of comparisons, some inevitably invidious.

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International Organization , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 1956 , pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1956

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References

1 Committee of European Economic Cooperation, General Report, Volume 1, U. S. Department of State Publication 2930, 1947, p. 39–40Google Scholar.

2 80th Congress, Public Law 472, Sec. 115 (b).

3 See OEEC, Report to the Economic Cooperation Administration on the Pint Annual Program, Paris, 1948Google Scholar.

4 Schelling, Thomas C., “American Foreign Assistance,” World Politics, 07 1955, p. 618Google Scholar.

5 For a summary of this author's views on these matters, see Gordon, Lincoln, “Myth and Reality in European Integration,” The Yah Review, 09 1955 (Vol. 55, No. 1), p. 83–89Google Scholar.

6 OEEC, At Work for Europe, Paris, 1954, p. 16Google Scholar.

7 For brief descriptions, see Brown, W. A. Jr and Opie, R., American Foreign Assistance, Brookings Institution, Washington, 1953, p. 294–299Google Scholar.

8 See, for example, Pearson, Lester B., “After Geneva: A Greater Task for NATO,” Foreign Affairs, 10 1955 (Vol. 34, No. 1), p. 14–23CrossRefGoogle Scholar.