Archive Report
Archive Report
United States and Foreign Reconstruction
Prospect of New Program to Aid European Recovery
Mounting indications that Europe cannot win its battle for reconstruction and recovery without additional outside aid make it virtually certain that the United States will soon be called upon to undertake a new foreign lending program of large proportions or to initiate some peacetime variant of lend-lease. The purpose of such a program will be not only to save Europe from economic collapse and its political consequences, but to avert a world economic crisis which would seriously affect production and employment in this country.
At Harvard University, June 5, Secretary of State Marshall observed that “The rehabilitation of the economic structure of Europe quite evidently will require a much longer time and greater effort ...