W. Averell Harriman - It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marsh...

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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

W. Averell Harriman

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Mir war nie der Gedanke gekommen, dass wir ein so grandioses Programm hätten wie der Marshall-Plan, aber ich hatte das Gefühl, dass wir etwas tun mussten, um Europa vor einer wirtschaftlichen Katastrophe zu retten, die die Übernahme des Kommunismus fördern würde.

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