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2. A further advance that is attributed by French Government officials directly to ECA's work in this field is the growing receptiveness of French manufacturers to the OEEC Inter-European Technical Assistance Program. European management has until recently been strongly averse to sharing technical knowledge or details of factory management with potential competitors, whether French or any other nationality. However, TAG, the OEEC Technical Assistance Group set up in mid-1950, has now received assurances from some 450 major French firms in many varied fields of industry that they would welcome Technical Assistance teams from other European countries. The reason for this change of attitude is considered by the French Government as being due to the unqualified welcome given French Technical Assistance teams by private firms in the U.S. and the examples they have seen of the advantages to be gained through cooperation in lieu of competitive secrecy. Source: Mission Monthly TA Report, February 1951. Implementation Agriculture Hybrid Corn, TA 38-4 3. The best example of the effectiveness of the Agricultural TA Program in France comes from the Hybrid Corn project. This project, conducted in 1949, helped to convince officials of the possible value to France of hybrid corn. As a result, French 11

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