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 also seems that intentions such as had once been manifested in the Morgenthau Plan played their part. This continued until the Marshall Plan brought the turning point. The Marshall Plan will remain for all time a glorious page in the history of the United States of America. But the change was very slow and the economic, physical, moral, and political decline of Germany which had begun with the unconditional surrender took great efforts to reverse. (5) George Kennan, Foreign Affairs Journal (July, 1957)
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy towards the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. 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.