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Article: George Marshall: The Five-Star Statesman
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- June 21, 1987
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GEORGE C. MARSHALL Statesman, 1945-1950
By Forrest C. Pogue
Viking. 603 pp. $29.95
FORTY YEARS AGO this month, it has been widely noted, Secretary
of State George C. Marshall unveiled to a commencement gathering of
Harvard alumni a plan pledging massive economic development funds to
strengthen Western Europe against communism. In fact, as Forrest C.
Pogue makes clear in this fourth and final volume of his definitive
biography of Marshall, the secretarys brief speech set forth not a
plan but an offer, extended not to Western Europe but to all of
Europe, focusing not on economic development or communism but on
postwar recovery and reconstruction, pledging not specific sums but a
national ...