1940's Government and Politics | "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University, June 5, 1947"

Speech

By: George C. Marshall

Date: June 5, 1947

Source: "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University." June 5, 1947. Available at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development online at http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-0-nodirector... ; website home page http://www.oecd.org (accessed March 17, 2003).

About the Author: General George C. Marshall (1880–1959) served as U.S. Army chief of staff during World War II (1939–1945) and later as secretary of state (1947–1949) and secretary of defense (1950–1951). He is best remembered for the European Recovery Program he proposed in 1947, which became known as the Marshall Plan. In 1953 he received the Nobel Prize for...