UN General Assembly
1949

95. Mr. van Zeeland would not go so far as to say that the OEEC had so far been more successful than the United Nations. He would refrain from giving his opinion, but many believed that the OEEC had so far merely touched upon the fundamental problems facing Europe. 96. To be sure, by technical methods and by the most efficient use of the possibilities of immediate action placed at its disposal by the enlightened generosity of the United States, OEEC had made possible a stabilization of the material situation which struck any impartial observer visiting the old countries of Europe. But obviously that did not suffice. The OEEC was faced with a magnificent but formidable task. It had to prepare and to foster the economic integration of Europe by organic and, hence, lasting methods. That was the task to which he hoped it would devote itself thenceforth, without neglecting others.