SPAIN: How to Help

The man who stepped off a plane at Madrid last September, followed by an efficient-looking retinue of 25 men & women, was a Ph.D. from Syracuse. Professor Sidney Sufrin had been hired by ECA to find out once & for all just how strong Francisco Franco's economy is, and what might be done to help it in the interests of Western Europe's defense.

Last week, two months ahead of schedule, the Sufrin mission finished its job. It had steered clear of the social whirl which delights and hampers Madrid's official world with an average of 25 diplomatic cocktail parties a...

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