Milton Katz; Professor Administered Marshall Plan

Milton Katz, 87, a Harvard Law School professor who was administrator of the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II. During the war, Katz first served as part of the War Production Board and the Combined Production and Resources Board and later as a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve. He spent a year as general counsel to the European headquarters of the Economic Cooperation Administration, the agency set up to administer the Marshall Plan, which pumped $12 billion into postwar Europe. In 1949, he was named deputy U.S. special representative in Europe with the rank of ambassador, and in 1950 he replaced Averell Harriman as U.S. special representative, the chief of the Marshall Plan. A native of New York City, Katz was educated at Harvard and taught there from 1939 until his retirement in 1978, for many years directing the international legal studies program he helped to establish. On Aug. 9 in Brookline, Mass., of cardiac arrest.