Chapter 73 NATO
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The European Revival Plan has held two meetings, the first time in London and the second time in Paris. The Soviet Union and their franchisees participated in the first two times, but this time, due to the huge differences, the Soviet Union withdrew from the plan.
Soon after, the Soviet Union released a "alternative plan" for the European Revival Plan in Eastern Europe. The plan mainly included economic assistance to Eastern European countries and the development of trade between Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union. This was the famous Molotov Plan, which was later the Economic Mutual Assistance Committee.
In Western Europe, the United States is the main focus, and the "General Administration of Economic Cooperation" was established to be responsible for the implementation of this plan. The leader of this organization is Paul Hoffman, who Zhou Nan once met.
In this life, there was no more Marshall Plan, and it was replaced by a formal name: "European Revival Plan".
The United States cannot agree with naming this plan after Zhou Nan, but in Europe, countries have become accustomed to replacing the name "Marshall Plan" with the "Jonas Plan".
The core of Jonas' plan is that the United States uses its resource advantages to help European countries, and they will benefit from trading through trade.
From the beginning of the plan, the vast majority of the participating governments of the Yonas plan understood that they would never have to return the corresponding fund to the United States. In the end, the balance of the funds was mostly included in the country's fiscal budget and then "disappeared" from then on.
However, Germany is an exception. Unlike other European countries, the United States initially stipulated that Germany must return all aid funds in the future.
But later, the funds that Germany should return were greatly reduced.
Before July 1, 2011, Germany received aid from the Marshall Plan in equivalent to about $1.5 billion, and less than $500 million were returned.
After that, the aid received was equivalent to $270 million, and they only had to repay less than $20 million of it to the U.S. Export-Import Bank in Washington.
Zhou Nan thought about the content of the Marshall plan in later generations, while thinking about what Marshall would talk to him about.
The bicycle passed by the Hilton Hotel but did not stop. Feyward said: "There are too many people from all over the world in the hotel. Ludwig invited Secretary Marshall to visit Villa Senal on your behalf."
Zhou Nan thought for a while and said, "You send me directly to the main house. I will prepare it first and treat them at my own home."
Feyward said with a hint: "Indeed, it's a bit too formal at Villa Senal. Hospitality at home can bring personal feelings closer. However, Ludwig cannot make an invitation on your behalf."
As one of Zhou Nan's spokespersons, it is normal for Storco to invite guests to offices, but if he invites people to his home, it will be even more vulnerable.
There was no one in the main house tonight, and a group of women were all in the town to celebrate. Although the sky was not completely dark, all the lights on the farm had been lit, adding a hint of warmth to the somewhat cold farm.
Zhou Nan opened the main entrance of the main house, first got into the kitchen, carried a few bottles of hot water, and then opened the coffee in the small living room.
At his home, he often receives some small gifts from scholars and visitors from all over the world, among which coffee and tea are the most common.
When the Chinese from Southeast Asia arrived, they also brought the most famous cat shit coffee in their place. Unfortunately, when Zhou Nan heard that this kind of coffee beans were eaten and pulled out, he thanked and loved this kind of coffee.
His favorite thing to drink was tea. In another life, he liked clear tea and green tea when he was young. When he got older, he liked to drink Biluochun and Tieguanyin, and also liked to drink some Pu'er in winter.
There are so many customers that there are all kinds of tea at home, but in order to let these Americans experience Chinese culture, he is preparing to make Tieguanyin Kung Fu tea today.
Through the floor-to-ceiling glass, Zhou Nan immediately greeted him.
Except for Marshall, most of the others are also acquaintances, and only a few representatives of the banker and the person from the Commodity Export Committee Zhou Nan did not know him.
Zhou Nan held them one by one and invited them into the main house.
There are twelve main seats in the small living room, four single sofas and four double sofas, surrounded by a log short table.
Stolco and Feverde helped add a few chairs between the sofas and invited guests to sit down together. Those who wanted to drink coffee ran to coffee, and those who wanted to drink tea, Zhou Nan personally made tea for them.
Marshall praised the beautiful scenery of Zhou Nan's home, expressed his envy and appropriate compliments, and admired Zhou Nan's Kung Fu Tea.
At Zhou Nan's home, tea is good tea, and the water is mountain spring water, so the tea thrown is naturally very fragrant. For ordinary foreigners, it is difficult for them to get used to tea without sugar or milk, but for Marshall, who had been in the mainland for nearly a year last year, it felt a sense of intimacy.
Although he was a soldier, he was quite moderate in foreign policy. Moreover, he never thought that the world should follow the American style and admired communism very much.
Therefore, Zhou Nan was willing to treat him with courtesy not because he was the Secretary of State, but because of his character and character.
His tea set was also given by a young man named Huang Liming from Indonesia. His ancestral home was the hometown of rebuilt tea, and his family also had a tea business. This time he came to Switzerland, a set of purple clay teapots produced in Yixing were from famous artists and were also the most valuable gifts.
After Zhou Nan found out, he wanted to return it to him, but he insisted on it. Zhou Nan had to accept it. He gave him a copybook "Benefiting the country and the people" written by him as a gift, which made him extremely excited.
Although Zhou Nan has never learned how to make tea, he has been making tea for decades and has made this set of procedures smoothly. Everyone praised his tea making sense of art.
The tea was brewed, the greetings were over, and the conversation returned to the main topic.
Marshall first briefly introduced the achievements made in this meeting to Zhou Nan, which are not much different from the Marshall plan in his previous life.
The U.S. Congress approved a assistance program with a total amount of $13 billion, with $3.4 billion used to import raw materials and semi-made products, $3.2 billion used to purchase food, feed and fertilizer, $1.9 billion used to import heavy industrial products such as importers, vehicles and heavy equipment, and $1.6 billion used to import fuel.
Also established is a corresponding fund, the function of this project is to convert the aid funds of the European Revival Plan into funds composed of local currencies. According to the constitution of the General Administration of Economic Cooperation, no less than 60% of the funds are applied to investment in the manufacturing industry.
Especially in Germany, almost all funds must be used in manufacturing, and then 60% of them are used for revolving private lending, and 40% of the profit will be compensated to other countries as compensation.
In Zhou Nan's memory, through this fund alone, Germany compensated at least 80 billion German marks to other countries in the next sixty years.
Although Zhou Nan's existence has affected many details, it has little impact on the world environment.
The purpose of his search for Zhou Nan was to make Zhou Nan serve as an advisor in the General Administration of Economic Cooperation. Although they and European countries did not want Zhou Nan to participate in details, they all believed in Zhou Nan's ability in controlling the overall policy. After all, this plan was proposed by Zhou Nan at the beginning.
Now that the distribution of interests is almost settled, they need a senior expert with a clear understanding of the overall situation and a neutral position to help them control the overall situation.
Zhou Nan did not want to participate in their interests, but it did not mean that he was willing to be marginalized. He was very moved by the invitation, but did not directly agree to them.
Because he is now the Deputy Secretary-General of the Swiss Federation, if he wants to hold a position in an international official organization, he must first obtain permission from the Swiss government.
Zhou Nan knew very well that the Swiss government would not have any opinions, because Zhou Nan is now an advisor to the General Administration of Economic Cooperation and can naturally take care of Switzerland's interests.
However, the procedures still have to follow the normal course, and not to wait to agree, as this eating habit is too ugly.
Therefore, Zhou Nan verbally expressed his willingness to assume more responsibilities, but first of all, he had to obtain approval from the Swiss government.
The guests and host talked happily. Zhou Nan invited Marshall to drink two teas. He wanted to rush to Geneva in the evening and could not stay for too long, so he got up and said goodbye.
After giving Zhou Nan such great benefits, Zhou Nan would of course express his gratitude. Not only did he send him out of his home, he also took a hotel yacht and sent him to Buoks Field at the foot of Bergen Mountain opposite the lake. He took a special trip, and then Zhou Nan followed the yacht back home.
Several women at home came back. When Lily saw Zhou Nan, she hugged Zhou Nan and said the bustle of the town in words she couldn't speak.
Zhou Nan picked her up and teased her to feed her the chocolate to herself. Lily was a little stingy when she came to Switzerland, but she had everything she wanted to eat recently, so she was not stingy anymore, so she fed the chocolate inside to Zhou Nan's mouth.
Caroline always felt unrealistic when she saw Zhou Nan teasing Lily like a child. Just now, was it really the Secretary of State of the United States who came to visit her home?
The child I raised myself has really become a big shot now!
"Lily, come here, stop arguing with my uncle, I still have a job. Yonas, are you hungry?"
"I ate a lot of snacks on the street in the afternoon, and I'm not hungry at all now. But I'll make some food for us. Ludwig and Favord have not had supper yet!"
Stolco and Feward were not polite either. They asked Kelly what to eat and made some for them.
The three of them sat in the sofa in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the small living room, and Stolco handed him the minutes of the meeting he had recorded today.
While Zhou Nan looked, he also told Zhou Nan in detail about the attitudes of representatives from various countries during the meeting, which gave Zhou Nan some impression of things beyond the text.
Chapter completed!