Title: Online Exhibition - For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan | Exhibitions - Library of Congress
Headings: For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
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For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
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Marshall Announces His Plan
Fears of Communist Domination
Truman Signs the Economic Assistance Act
Leaders of the Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan Countries
Promoting the Marshall Plan
A Communist Critique of the Marshall Plan
Soviet Opposition to the Marshall Plan
A Negative View of Aid to Europe
Dutch View of the Marshall Plan
Benefits for the U.S. Economy
Shipping Equipment Abroad Under the Marshall Plan
Stuttgart—Before and After the Marshall Plan
Establishment of the German Marshall Fund
A Danish Celebration of the Marshall Plan

Content: Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug, Representative Joseph Martin (R—Mass.), Representative Sol Bloom (D—N.Y.),and Attorney General Tom Clark. Enlarge
“The President Signs the Economic Assistance Act,” 1948. Copyprint from The Marshall Plan at the Mid-Mark. Averell Harriman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (3)
Leaders of the Marshall Plan
On November 29, 1948, President Harry S Truman conferred with the top leaders of the Marshall Plan— ( left to right) George C. Marshall, Paul G. Hoffman (1891–1974), and Averell Harriman (1891–1986). Hoffman was president of the Studebaker automobile corporation when Truman appointed him head of the Economic Cooperation Administration, the agency that operated the Economic Recovery Program (ERP). He was chosen because Congress thought that the ERP could best be run by people with business and financial experience. Hoffman was a first-rate manager whose tact, persuasiveness, and commitment to ERP goals proved to be valuable assets. Harriman, also an experienced businessman, held the second-most-important post, special representative to the countries participating in the Marshall Plan. Before becoming secretary of commerce in the Truman administration, he had served in two crucial posts during World War II, as Lend-Lease representative in Britain and then as U.S. ambassador to Moscow.