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Name of interviewer<br />
J.-M. Palayret<br />
Date of recording<br />
10/12/1992<br />
Transcript<br />
pdf format, 61 pages<br />
Comments<br />
Les 8 premières pages de la transcription manquent<br />
Cited persons<br />
Perrin,Jean Maze,Roland Halban,Hans Laugier,Henri Capitant,René Joliot-Curie,Frédéric<br />
Interview language<br />
FR<br />
Topics Pages<br />
education, professional career: physical sciences 1-20<br />
education, professional career: nuclear energy 20-24<br />
education, professional career: Forces Françaises Libres 24-26<br />
education, professional career: research policy: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique / CNRS: 1945-1948 26-32,34-36<br />
UNO: UNESCO: scientific cooperation: 1946-1949 33-34,36-38<br />
CERN: setting up: 1950-1953 38-42<br />
space policy: France: CNES / Comité des recherches spatiales: setting up 43-44<br />
ELDO/ESRO: ELDO setting up / ESRO setting up: ESRO centres 44-49<br />
education, professional career: popularising science: 1955 50-52<br />
INT021 - Ball, George<br />
from <strong>European</strong> <strong>University</strong> Intitute collection<br />
Date of birth<br />
21/12/1909<br />
Place of birth<br />
Des Moines<br />
Nationality<br />
US<br />
George Ball studied at Northwestern <strong>University</strong>, earning a law degree in 1933. He began his career in Washington, DC, as state attorney<br />
from 1933 to 1935 when he left to practice tax law in Chicago. In 1942, he was appointed associate general counsel for the Lend-Lease<br />
Administration in Washington (1942-1944). Towards the end of World War II, George Ball directed the US strategic Bombing Survey in<br />
London. As expert on economic foreign policy, President John Kennedy named George Ball Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs<br />
(1961-1966). During that period he played a major role in formulating U.S. foreign aid and foreign trade policy and became involved in<br />
the formulation of the Trade Agreements Act of 1962. He remained at the State Department until 1966 when he resigned to join the<br />
banking firm Lehman Brothers. Although he publicly opposed the Vietnam War, he was briefly appointed US Ambassador to the UN in<br />
1968. In 1969, Ball returned to banking until his retirement in 1982. George Ball died in New York City on May 26, 1994.<br />
Name of interviewer<br />
P. Winand<br />
Date of recording<br />
08/1988<br />
Transcript<br />
pdf format, 20 pages<br />
Cited persons<br />
Macmillan,Harold Monnet,Jean McNamara,Robert Couve De Murville,Maurice Gavin,James<br />
Interview language<br />
EN<br />
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