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...statement proved correct, though incredibly understated. For the 2185 candidates for Harvard degrees who graduated that day were sent into the world with a message from the country's top diplomat that has had powerful implications on the shape of international relations until the present day. It is appropriate then that the speaker at today's Commencement, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of that pronouncement, be the leader of West Germany--one of the nations most aided by America post-War altruism as embodied in the Marshall Plan...
Stimson Professor of Law Emeritus Milton Katz '27, who headed the administration of the Marshall Plan's European offices for a period of time, was present for the Commencement address. "I sat there under the sunshine and, I'm ashamed to say. I thought it was very interesting but I was not struck by the overwhelming importance of it," he says...
...foreign policy experts also say that the tremendous financial undertaking would never materialize in the present era. "In the immediate post-war period we were able to come forward with a major effort and spend 3 percent of our Gross National Product for the Marshall Plan. Today we can't get one half of one percent for such purposes," says Rusk...
Thompson's new program may change centralized ethical education more at Harvard, but until then the university will continue on its present, divergent courses...
Many say that it is a desire to restore his family name that has prompted the younger von Weizsacker to present such a uniquely honest, and candid, vision for modern Germany. And in doing so he has gained widespread popularity among Germans, serving especially as the conscience of younger Germans, who have shown an instinct to rile at being reminded of their Nazi past...