[lit-ideas] Re: Re-enactments
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:19:34 -0700
Marlena wrote:
One reason Truman gave for the Marshall Plan was that he did not want
there to be the same deep-seated anger and hatred for the 'winners' that
had occurred in this area because of Order No 11--his mother/grandmother
simply could not stand people from Kansas, for example, and for them,
the war never really ended...
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This may be; but the 'Marshall Plan'(which became the Economic
Cooperation Act) was, unsurprisingly, so-called because it had been
largely Marshall's plan. General George C. Marshall had become Secretary
of State in Truman's administration in 1947, and on June 5, he spoke at
Harvard, setting out the need for 'the rehabilitation of Europe.'
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947marshallplan1.html
In December 1947, Truman sent a message to Congress, supporting such a
plan. Congress (skipping ahead) approved the ECA, and on April 3, 1948,
Truman signed it into law. Congressional approval was no doubt
stimulated by the coup, backed by the Soviets, in Czechoslovakia,
in February 1948.
Truman supported the Marshall Plan, but it wasn't his baby. The US was
on the edge of the Cold War, and American generosity was hastened by the
perception of a Soviet threat to Europe.
What quaint times.
Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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