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ERP ambassador W. Averill Harriman reached into the Law School last night and grabbed up Milton Katz '27, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, to be general counsel for the whole European aid program.
Professor Katz has already accepted the post, although some red tape must still be cut before final arrangements are made. He plans to embark for Europe before the end of next month.
Professor Katz' official title will be "General Counsel for the European Mission of the Economic Cooperative Administration." He will supervise all legal work under the program, including procuring goods, drawing financial treaties, and seeing that Europe lives up to its side of the bargain.
Will Draw Up Treaties
His immediate task will be arranging "bilateral agreements" between the United States and the 16 Marshall Plan nations. After that, his bailiwick will extend to legal questions in each ERP country, as well as to the central structure of the program.
President Conant and Dean Griswold of the Law School have verbally accepted Professor Katz' resignation, but no steps have been taken to choose his successor.
Worked on RFC
The professor was a New York City lawyer before coming to Harvard, and has worked under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, National Recovery Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission, and War Production Board.
A graduate of the Harvard Law School, Professor Katz assumed the post of lecturer on law in 1939 and was named a professor in 1940.
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