Title: Marshall Plan
Headings: Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan
Primary Sources
(1) President Truman, speech to Congress (12th March, 1947)
(2) George Marshall, Secretary of State, speech at Harvard University (5th June, 1947)
(3) Andrei Vyshinsky, Soviet Union spokesman at the United Nations, speech (18th September, 1947)
(4) Konrad Adenauer, speech in Berne (23rd March, 1949)
(5) George Kennan, Foreign Affairs Journal (July, 1957)
(6) Felix Greene, The Enemy: What Every American Should Know About Imperialism (1965)
(6) Miriam Moskowitz, Phantom Spies, Phantom Justice (2010)

Content: It is clear that the United states cannot expect in the foreseeable future to enjoy political intimacy with the Soviet regime. It must continue to regard the Soviet Union as a rival, not a partner, in the political arena. (6) Felix Greene, The Enemy: What Every American Should Know About Imperialism (1965)
Marshall Plan aid, essentially intended to keep the post-war economies of the West Europe countries within the capitalist world, was also intended to dominate their economy. Every transaction was arranged to provide not only immediate profits for specific US banks, finance corporations, investment trusts and industries, but to make the European nations dependent on the United States. (6) Miriam Moskowitz, Phantom Spies, Phantom Justice (2010)
The Marshall Plan resulted. It was an immense program of foreign aid in the form of American goods and services, ostensibly idealistic and designed to rebuild Europe, but it was hardly without self-interest. Since the Marshall Plan demanded the opening up of European markets to American penetration, the Soviet Union saw it as a hostile, predatory maneuver and declined to participate. It also loudly denounced it. On the other hand, the Plan's anti-Soviet nature was barely concealed with thinly veiled warnings about countries seeking to gain political ends through human misery.