Evening star., 1948-05-09

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Republican political background, ha
a staff of assistants free from the
taint of New Dealism. so unpopular
with the prevailing sentiment in
Congress.
For his deputy he has named
q conservative Democrat, Howard
Bruce, a Baltimore industrialist.
His own personal and legal staff at
present is made up of on-loan per-
sonnel from the company he for
merly headed, Studebaker Corp.
Bissell Is the Sparkplug
The new rowing Ambassador, w.
Averell Hartman, has been under
attack many times on Capitol Hill
for associating with New Dealers,
but he won unanimous Senate con-
firmation on the basis of his extern
sive experience both at home and
abroad. He is multimillionalre
whose family controls the Union
Pacific Railroad.
Sparkplug of the new ECA-it'S
initials are still too new to be known
to many Washingtonians-is Rich
ard NJ. Bissell, jr., an economist
who worked with Mr.. Hoffman on
the Hartman committee which pre-
pared a greatly praised report on
the foreign-aid question. Mr.. Bis
sell was named ON Thursday to be
assistant deputy administrator, the
No. ECA job in Washington.
The two division heads are Wayne
C. Taylor, former Commerce and
Treasury official and conservative
economist, and DR.. Dennis A.
FITZGERALD, the international food
expert who heads the food division.
ECA's organization chart has been
redrawn daily by harassed admins
trative officials and the agency's
phone book Is constantly being
added to and reprinted. But things
are beginning to take shape now.
Mr.. Hoffman has made 1t clear he
will leave the personnel problem up
to the top people he has named, a
process now about complete. This
week he also named controller,
Eric L. Kohler, a Chicago account
ant.
Must Help Themselves
The Joint Congressional Commit
tee on Foreign Economic Co-opera-
ton, headed by Senator Bridges,
Republican, of New Hampshire,
named a former Republican Con-
gresham, Charles S. Dewey, to head
its technical staff. This is the So
called congressional watchdog >
committee.
Mr.. Hoffman is now engaged in
working on the text of the bilateral
agreements which must be signed
by each of the 16 participating Eu-
ropean nations before they are ELI
gible for anything but emergency
aid. In other words, each nation
must agree, and in some cases its
Parliament or Congress must ap-
prove, pact with the United States
pledging to live up to the conditions
written into the ERP bill by Con-
gress.
These conditions. In effect, pledge
the Is nations to do their utmost to
help themselves and each other in
the recovery effort, to pay back part
of the American aid in scarce raw
materials for stockpiling. to give us
all information on what they are
doing to effect recovery and to set
aside in a special fund the money
they receive from their own peoples
for sale of the goods we ship abroad.
The agreements are being drafted
by the State Department-State will
do the negotiating-with the ap-
proval of ECA. 1t will take a bit
of doing to have them all signed,
sealed and ratified by July 3, the
date on which all aid will end for
nations which haven't made the
new pacts.
Rush of Job Hunters
Thus for several months, ECA
will be chiefly concerned with con-
tinuing the relief program under
the old stopgap and other relief
acts. 1t will be months before
any large amount of recovery goods,
as distinguished from such relief
items as food, begins to flow abroad.
The millions of dollars worth OF
funds already allotted by ECA to
ERP nations are all going for
such relief purposes.
Currently, the ECA's biggest job
Is heading off the job hunters, the
people who have something to sell
.,road and the special pleaders.
Nearly 10000 job applications
lave come in, but it is evident that
ECA, in Washington, at this time
is not going to become mushroom
agency. 1t will do no buying, leav-
ing that to other Government agen-