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Content: For the first time, they would have to act
as a single economic unit; they would have to cooperate with each other. Marshall also offered aid to the Soviet Union and its allies in eastern
Europe, but Stalin denounced the program as a trick and refused to participate. The Russian rejection probably made passage of the measure through Congress
possible. The Marshall Plan, it should be noted, benefited the American economy
as well. The money would be used to buy goods from the United States, and
they had to be shipped across the Atlantic on American merchant vessels. But it worked. By 1953 the United States had pumped in $13 billion, and
Europe was standing on its feet again. Moreover, the Plan included West
Germany, which was thus reintegrated into the European community. ( The
aid was all economic;