25 FEBRUARY 1949, Page 5

M. Spaak, Chairman of the Committee of Eight which is

to direct the body known at present as O.E.E.C.—Organisation for European Economic Co-operation—having expressed a desire for some better name than that, I feel impelled to make my contribution for what it may be worth. The name should be European Recovery Organisa- tion. That has the advantage of describing exactly what the organi- sation is, and also of providing initials—E.R.O.—which make a com- bination as pronounceable as U.N.O. Furthermore, just as U.N.O. is in French O.N.U. (Organisation des Nations Unies) so E.R.O. becomes O.R.E. (Organisation. pour Retablissement [or Redresse- mend Europeen). The E, it is true, will have to be given an acute accent—but why not ?