Marshall Plan

Forty-five years ago, when the Marshall Plan was inaugurated, the European economics had been wrecked by World War ll; today, the economies of Eastern Europe and the now independent republics of the former Soviet Union are ruined by the Cold War.

This recently discovered study by Allen Dulles, written in the winter of 1947/48 when the acceptance of the Marshall Plan was still in doubt, not only offers fascinating insights into the early postwar period but may also serve as an inspiration to policy makers at a time when there is much discussion of recovery programmes for Eastern Europe and the Marshall Plan is often evoked as a possible model.