The Promise That Rebuilt a Continent
On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall stood before Harvard's graduating class and made a quiet, extraordinary promise. Europe lay in ruins —...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Genesis 9:8-17.
On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall stood before Harvard's graduating class and made a quiet, extraordinary promise. Europe lay in ruins — cities flattened, economies shattered, millions starving. The United States, the most powerful nation on earth, could have walked away. Instead, Marshall pledged billions of dollars to rebuild the very continent that war had devastated. What made the Marshall Plan remarkable was its structure.…
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