Nemesis of Power
Nemesis of Power
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权力的克星
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10.1007/978-1-349-02582-4_4
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发表时间：
1954
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J. Wheeler
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J. Wheeler
1948年初，因弗查普尔勋爵阿奇·克拉克·克尔从驻华盛顿大使的职位上退休，英国政府决定由一名非职业大使接替他的职务。他们的选择是爵士奥利弗弗兰克斯谁，像许多领先的学术人物在牛津大学，他一直教务长的女王学院，已成为一个非常成功的临时公务员在战争期间。当时，他成为供应部的劳工主任，并以这种身份认识了当时的劳工部长欧内斯特·贝文。事实上，当比弗布鲁克勋爵担任生产部长时，他经常对贝文与比弗布鲁克勋爵的激烈对抗产生影响。因此，1947年晚些时候，时任外交大臣的厄尼·贝文（Ernie Bevin）四处寻找能让马歇尔援助计划在行政上发挥作用的人时，很自然地选择了奥利弗·弗兰克斯（Oliver Franks）。弗兰克斯再次离开女王学院，去处理建立欧洲经济合作组织（OECD）这一远不容易的任务。
Early in 1948 Archie Clark Kerr, Lord Inverchapel, retired as ambassador to Washington, and the British government decided to replace him by a non-career ambassador. Their choice was Sir Oliver Franks who, like many of the leading academic figures at Oxford where he had been Provost of The Queen’s College, had become a highly successful temporary civil servant during the war. At that time he became Director of Labour at the Ministry of Supply and in this capacity he came to know Ernest Bevin, then Minister of Labour. Indeed, he not infrequently exercised a balsamic influence on Bevin’s bitter confrontations with Lord Beaverbrook when the latter was the Minister of Production. It was natural, therefore, that when, later in 1947, Ernie Bevin, then Foreign Secretary, looked around for someone to make the Marshall Aid plan work administratively, he wisely turned to Oliver Franks, who again forsook The Queen’s College to tackle the far from easy task of setting up the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation.