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Truman and the Marshall Plan

This collection focuses on the Marshall Plan. The collection includes 52 documents totaling 441 pages covering the years 1946 through 1953. Supporting materials include photographs, oral history transcripts and online museum exhibits.

Marshall leaving for the London Conference of Foreign Ministers, November 20, 1947.

Documents

Displaying 1 - 51 of 51 documents

1946

Charles Kindleberger to Benjamin Cohen
Charles Kindleberger to John C. de Wilde
Charles Kindleberger to John K. Galbraith
Correspondence between Charles Kindleberger and John K. Galbraith

1947

"Certain Aspects of the European Recovery Problem"
"European Recovery Program Basic Document No. 1"
"Summary of State Department's Position of European Recovery Plan"
"The Immediate Need for Emergency Aid to Europe"
Acheson's Harvard speech of June 5, 1947
Charles Kindleberger to John C. de Wilde
Clark Clifford to Harry S. Truman, with attached report from Robert Lovett
Clinton Anderson to D. A. FitzGerald, with attached report, "The United States Grain Export Program"
Clinton Anderson to Harry S. Truman, with attached Summary Report of Famine Emergency Committee
Correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Herbert Hoover
Correspondence between Maurice Frere and John Snyder, with attached report, "The Marshall Proposal of Assistance to Europe"
Correspondence between Ray Moseley and Harry S. Truman
Development of Foreign Reconstruction Policy, March-July 1947
Draft Report, "The Necessary Steps for the Promotion of German Exports..."
Edward Mason to Willard Thorpe
Elbridge Durbrow to George Marshall
Harry S. Truman to Herbert Hoover
Joseph M. Jones to Dean Acheson
Joseph M. Jones to Dean Acheson, with attached draft outline notes for speech
Joseph M. Jones to Hubert Havlick, et al., with attached speech draft
Joseph M. Jones to Mr. Russell
Joseph M. Jones to Walter Lippmann
Letter, Herbert Hoover to Harry S. Truman
Memorandum from Mike Mansfield
Notes for Acheson speech, "The Economics of Peace"
Report on Radio Reaction to Acheson's Speech
Report, "German Agricultural and Food Requirements"
Speech by Dean Acheson, "The Requirements of Reconstruction"
Speech by George C. Marshall, "European Initiative Essential to Economic Recovery"
World Cereals Position For 1947/48

1948

Clinton Anderson to Harry S. Truman
John H. Williams to Paul Hoffman with attached report
Memorandum of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation
Robert Garner to Paul Hoffman, with attachment

1949

Paul Hoffman to Arthur H. Vandenberg
Review of European Press Reaction to Mr. Hoffman's Paris Visit and OEEC Negotiations, 25 October through 10 November 1949
Text of Statement by Paul G. Hoffman on European Economy

1950

CBS Report of Paul Hoffman Resignation
Oliver Franks to Paul G. Hoffman

1951

Correspondence between Donald C. Stone and Paul Hoffman, with attached report, "Implications of Mutual Security Act and Requirements for Action"

1952

Interview with Averell Harriman
Interview with George C. Marshall
Interview with Harold Stein
Note on Interview with Glenn Craig
Note on Interview with Harlan Cleveland
Note on Interview with Richard M. Bissell Jr

1953

Interview with Paul G. Hoffman

Background

External Links

For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, Library of Congress Marshall Plan Exhibit