Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

George C. Marshall

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Topic

Marshall Plan World War II

Speaker

George C. Marshall

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Military officer Statesman

From

United States

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Marshall, George Catlett. Address announcing the Marshall Plan. 5 June 1947, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Scweitzer, Albert. Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, translated by Kurt Bergel and Alice R. Bergel. Syracuse University Press, 1997.

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