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Content: it did not include military aid until after the Korean
War.) Aside from helping to put Europe back on its feet, the Marshall Plan
led to the Schuman Plan, which in turn led to Euratom, then the Coal and
Iron Community and the Common Market, and pointed to what may yet evolve
into an economically and politically united Europe. In many ways, the Marshall
Plan satisfied both those who wanted our foreign policy to be generous
and idealistic and those who demanded realpolitik; it helped feed the starving
and shelter the homeless, and at the same time stopped the spread of communism
and put the European economy back on its feet. For further reading: John Gimbel, The Origins of the Marshall Plan (1976); Imanuel Wexler, The Marshall Plan Revisited (1983); Michael Hogan, The
Marshall Plan (1987). THE MARSHALL PLAN
I need not tell you gentlemen that the world situation is very serious. That must be apparent to all intelligent people.