Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall Plan were solely a matter of dollars-&-cents investment for fair return, we would do well to scrap it now. On its present scale and design Marshall aid cannot ensure the permanent rehabilitation of Europe. It is too little, and it is probably too late, to do more than slow the economic decline which brought it into being...
...this is not the whole answer. The Marshall Plan is also political in purpose. As a counter to Communism in Western Europe it has already been worth more than it will ever cost us. It will continue to repay us many times over if it postpones Europe's disintegration and totalitarian engulfment...
...operation; we conceivably might not be voting Marshall money this year if four years ago we had possessed a political field force equal in talent and capacity to our military commands and forces in Europe. The equivalent mistake in 1948 would be to leave the execution of the Marshall Plan to businessmen, economists and kindred specialists. We must summon the finest political intelligence that we can assemble, arm it with adequate tools and direction, and place it in the field with our dollars...
...with out any doubt, that the U.S. lend us large and prolonged help in the economic field [but, more than that], it is clear that their support should be spread at the same time to the field of defense in as precise and explicit a manner as the Marshall Plan does on credit and imports...
John Kornfeld '48, who assumed chairmanship of the local group yesterday, issued a call last night for all veterans who support VAM aims to meet in Eliot D-42 tonight at 8 o'clock to plan forth-coming action...