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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: April 17, 2011
Caption: The Marshall Plan
Additional Description: Secretary Marshall's speech at Harvard on June 5, 1947, launched The Marshall Plan. The 16-nation European Recovery Program was directed against hunger and desperation. "The role of this country should consist of friendly aid in the drafting of a European program." with the nation initially opposed, Marshall spent a year turning public opinion, starting with a speech in Pittsburgh. The Marshall Plan transformed Europe, Marshall's achievement was honored with the 1953 Nobel Prize for peace.
Submitted: April 18, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p150640
File Size: 2.403 Megabytes

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