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Even more than the international monetary and financial system established at Bretton Woods or the strategic policy of containment enshrined in the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan remains the preeminent symbol of American liberal internationalism in the postwar era. It exemplified how capitalism's ends could be served by humanitarian means and provided the prototype from which domestic "Great Society" programs and Third World development assistance schemes, such as the Alliance for Progress and the Caribbean Basin Initiative, were later designed. A testament to the power of dollar diplomacy, it has helped to shape and maintain U.S. leadership in world...
...Marshall defined it, his program was "directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." In an era when the Truman Doctrine has been supplanted by the Reagan Docrtrine, and our foreign policy seems to lurch from one knee-jerk reaction to communism to the next, we might best remember the Marshall Plan not as a bastion against the East, but as a foundation for the open development of the West. The broad strokes Secretary Marshall painted here four decades ago remain an object lesson in how to overcome the limits of ideology...
...Simon plans to stay that way. "Harry Truman wore a bow tie and horn- rimmed glasses," he told followers at Southern Illinois University, "and he didn't knuckle under to pressure to change his views as he fought for working and retired Americans." In one recent poll, Simon, first choice of 6% of Democrats, ranked third among the contenders...
Four Harvard sophomores have been awarded Truman Scholarships of up to $7000 annually for four years in recognition of their high academic standing and interest in public service careers...
...Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation this week chose Sean T. Brady '89, Theresa A. Finn '89, Brooke A. Masters '89, David J. Samuels '89 and 101 other college sophomores nationwide from 1149 nominations...