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The historic former Hotel Majestic in Paris. See caption 1 at the foot of the article. © AFP
A majestic start: How the OECD was won
It would be easy to think that the organisation created in 1961 was the inevitable next stage in the evolution of the OEEC, the European body originally set up to administer the Marshall Plan in 1947. But the OECD did not simply "replace" the OEEC. Nor was its creation inevitable or easy.
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