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Article: MARSHALL PLAN WOULD BE NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE FOR U.S. TODAY/EUROPEANS NEED TO HELP CARRY LOAD
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- June 6, 1987
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A few days before President Reagan took off for Venice this week, he
spoke in the East Room of the White House in honor of the memory of
George C. Marshall on the 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. On
June 5, 1947, Marshall, then the Secretary of State, delivered the
commencement address at Harvard University, offering American help
for the reconstruction of war-scarred Europe. ``Our policy,'' he
said, ``is not directed against any country or doctrine but against
hunger, poverty, despotism and chaos.''
The American commitment to the European Recovery Program was
enormous. As President Reagan said at the White House, in today's
money - after allowing for inflation - it cost ...