Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where Are You Going?" What had happened? After the State Department had abandoned "patience and firmness" for a more forthright policy of less patience and more firmness, the U.S. had appeared to be on the right road. Briefly, last summer, with the announcement of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. had held the initiative. Russia was in momentary retreat. Last week the Marshall Plan was still a going idea and would soon help bolster the rickety economy of Europe. U.S. Congressmen had largely abandoned old ideas of isolationism. To most observers basic U.S. policies seemed sound. Then what had gone wrong...
Washington had shown little sense of urgency, even less appreciation of the fact that the struggle in the world is for men's hearts and minds. The Marshall Plan had originally aimed to capture their hearts through their stomachs. But the cold hammering away on the plan's economic aspects had left it with about as much political appeal to an Italian peasant as a page from the Statistical Abstract. U.S. propaganda agencies abroad, limited in funds, were ineffectual. The U.S. spoke-when it spoke-from the other side of the Atlantic. Russia hollered right down the chimney...
Only one Southern stalwart came forward to sound a sober warning to the secessionists. He was no warm friend of Harry Truman's. But Florida's Senator Claude Pepper thought Virginia's ballot plan a "brazen scheme," the effect of which would be to give the electoral voting power "to a little group of party bosses...
Vandenberg's baroque oratorical style was scarcely equal to his urgent sense of history. But his long and detailed presentation had a ponderous impressiveness. Said he solemnly: "[This plan] is the final product of eight months of more intensive study by more devoted minds than I have ever known to concentrate upon any other one objective in all my 20 years in Congress. ... If it fails, we have done our final best. If it succeeds, our children and our children's children will call us blessed...
Into the record went Henry's written polemic of 11,000 words, while, with Running Mate Glen Taylor at his side, he read abstracts from it. The Marshall Plan, he said, was a "blueprint" for war, a "colossal hoax" on the people of the U.S., and would "impose Washington and Wall Street intervention in the internal affairs of the participating countries." He had a counter proposal: the U.S. should give $50 billion to the United Nations to be spent for relief over the next ten years...