Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economizers were adamant. Barked John Taber: "The architects of this world-wide relief program have no definite plan." Stubbornly ignoring the months of conferences and hearings, the volumes of reports, and the testimony of such authorities as ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman and Under Secretary of State Bob Lovett, he protested that evidence in favor of the program was just "the result of a series of after-dinner conversations in which Administration economists let their imaginations run wild...
...weeks, representatives of the U.S., Britain, France and the Benelux countries have been meeting in London's drafty, sepulchral India House. Their problem sounded simple. Western Germany, with its coal and iron resources, is Europe's industrial heart, on whose soundness the Marshall Plan, and Europe's future, depend. Since the Russians have consistently sabotaged every four-power action that would give Western Germany (or any part of Germany) the political organization and the economic incentive to go to work for Europe's benefit, the Western powers had to see what they could do by themselves...
...Russia Wants War ..." For weeks, the French had doggedly held out against the plan. For one thing, they were afraid of a too powerful Germany. The U.S. and Britain had made concessions: 1) the Ruhr was to be administered by an international board which would see that France and the rest of Europe would get a fair share of Ruhr products; 2) the new Western German government would not be centralized but loosely federalized to prevent it from becoming too strong; 3) military occupation would not end "until the peace in Europe is secured...
There have been 296 previous Harvard Commencements, one of which was honored by the presence of Andrew Jackson, another by that of George Washington. The distinction of today's affair is that it is by far the biggest ever. This year's exercises do not differ very much in plan from those of the first Commencement Day, which came late in August, six years after the founding of the College. During the three centuries since then only a few graduations have been cancelled, but there have been several formidable threats to the proceedings...
...immediate task will be arranging bilateral agreements between the United States and the 16 Marshall Plan nations...