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26 unusual facts about Marshall Plan


Alan Valentine

He had previously taken a year's leave of absence to head up the Marshall Plan in The Netherlands.

Alan Chester Valentine (February 23, 1901 – July 14, 1980) was an American academic who competed on the gold-medal winning American rugby union team in the 1924 Summer Olympics, was president of the University of Rochester, and served in the Truman Administration as a Marshall Plan official and as the first head of the Economic Stabilization Agency.

Beresford Richards

Similarly, in March 1949, he was the only other CCF caucus member who did not repudiate statements made by St. Clements MLA Wilbert Doneleyko, denouncing the Marshall Plan and plans for an Atlantic Treaty as a new American hegemony.

Carl Falck

In this position and as part of the Marshall Plan, he spent two months in large cities in the US in 1952 to study the American wholesale industry.

Daniel Noce

From 1949 to 1952 he was Chief of Staff for the U.S. European Command in Germany, and played an important part in implementing rebuilding efforts undertaken as part of the Marshall Plan.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

His economic experience and contacts made him invaluable in the post-war government and he was the British representative in the Paris discussions on Marshall aid.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Hailed as a "cultural Marshall Plan," this traveling exhibit was created by the Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs to demonstrate to the world America's cultural diversity and cosmopolitanism in the mid 20th century.

Gedser wind turbine

It was constructed by the engineer Johannes Juul in 1957 for the SEAS (Sydsjællands Elektricitets Aktieselskab) electricity company with support from the Marshall Plan.

History of Czechoslovakia

Although the communist-led government initially intended to participate in the Marshall Plan, it was forced by the Kremlin to back out.

Hugh Scott

During his tenure in the House, Scott established himself as a strong internationalist after voting in favor of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, foreign aid to Greece and Turkey, and the Marshall Plan.

John Blandford Jr.

Blandford had been deputy chief of U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration in Greece and a consultant to president Harry Truman on the Marshall Plan.

John Edward Jacob

In the early 1980s, Jacob helped develop a plan for urban recovery similar to the 1947 Marshall Plan initiated to assist European nations after World War II.

John Ikenberry

In the end, the United States created its desired order through a series of security, economic, and financial multilateral institutions, including NATO and the Marshall Plan.

Joseph E. Slater

In 1949, Mr. Slater was named Secretary General of the Allied High Commission in Germany and three years later moved to Paris where he served as executive secretary in the office of the United States representatives to NATO and the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, set up under the Marshall Plan.

Joseph Marion Jones

These chronicled his part in the development of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

Marshall Mission

George Marshall returned to the United States and committed himself to the revitalization of Europe with the Marshall Plan in the role of United States Secretary of State.

Mary Agria

She spent 1962-1963 studying theater arts at the University of Bonn, Germany thanks to a Marshall Plan scholarship.

Melstedgård

The southern outhouse houses old farm machinery as well as three old tractors, one of them a 1948 John Deere sent from the United States under the post-war Marshall Plan.

Ørland Airport

The decision to upgrade the airport was taken in 1950, following the decision that Norway would receive the F-84 Thunderjet through the Marshall Plan.

Stephen Salyer

Founded in 1947 by a young Austrian studying at Harvard University who wanted to create a “Marshall Plan of the Mind,” Salzburg facilitates cross-sector development of strategic solutions, conducts international leadership development programs for rising stars in government, business, NGOs and academe, and offers model curricula and content to policy and education networks worldwide.

Stiring-Wendel

The Marshall Plan returned the Saar to German control in 1957, due to both economic and political demands.

Stylianos Kyriakides

In May 1947, a year after his victory and as a result of the publicity was given to the economic probelms of Greece, as aresult of the Boston Marathon, US government send an amount of $ 400,000, before the Marshall Plan.

Tybee Island, Georgia

Fort Screven is most notable for one of its former commanding officers, General of the Army George C. Marshall, later the architect of the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Western Europe after World War II.

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

It tells the story of a small Spanish town, Villar del Río, which hears of the visit of American diplomats and begins preparations to impress the American visitors in the hopes of benefitting under the Marshall Plan.

Willard Thorp

He helped draft the Marshall Plan and was also prominent in business and education.

William Lockhart Garwood

Garwood was named after his maternal grandfather, William Lockhart Clayton, a Houston cotton merchant and, as undersecretary of state for economic affairs, a principal architect of the post-World War II Marshall Plan.


A Report on Germany

After World War II, at the request of General Lucius D. Clay, Lewis H. Brown wrote A Report on Germany, which served as a detailed recommendation for the reconstruction of post-war Germany, and served as a basis for the Marshall Plan.

Leonard Miall

Ernest Bevin, then British Foreign Secretary, heard the broadcast, and was spurred to press ahead with what became the Marshall Plan for the nations of Europe to rebuild their economies after the war.

Taebaek Line

In 1949, the Economic Cooperation Administration, the United States government agency administering the Marshall Plan, also launched a plan to revive South Korea's economy, which included the construction of new railway lines.