ABSTRACT
My second published paper (1949) after returning to academic life in the fall of 1948 was naturally enough one that capitalized on my two experiences in the Department of State in which I had worked three years: Germany and the Marshall Plan. The occasion was a semi-annual meeting of the Academy of Political Science, associated with Columbia University where I had received my doctorate in economics, held on 7 April 1949. The wholeday meeting was devoted to “The United States and the Atlantic Community,” with my paper coming not in the morning session on “The United States and the German Problem,” but in the afternoon on “Organizing the Atlantic Community.” The evening meeting on the North Atlantic Pact produced talks by prominent political figures including Professor Philip C.Jessup of the Columbia Law School and Lester B. Pearson, then Secretary of State for External Affairs, later Prime Minister of Canada.
