A year and a half ago Vice President Henry Wallace suggested that one major postwar project should be an international Tennessee Valley Authority. Other logical dreamers became more specific, talked of a DVA for the Danube, a YVA for the Yangtze, an AVA for the Amazon.
All would bring power, transport, irrigation and prosperity to industrially back ward areas.
The International Labor Office assigned British Political Scientist Herman Finer to make a thorough assay of these dreams.
Last week the ILO published his scholarly, technical survey, The TVA: Lessons for International Application (288 pages; $2).
Finer's conclusion: TVAs abroad would probably equal...
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