Foreign policy Quote by Gianni Agnelli

“under the Marshall Plan, the United States offered aid to any country needing it, provided that they were not affiliated with Communism.”

— Hourly History

“Several premises shaped the Marshall Plan: that the gravest threat to western interests in Europe was not the prospect of Soviet military intervention, but…

— John Lewis Gaddis

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw…

— Giovanni Agnelli

“The Marshall Plan had stopped the Communists, had brought the European nations back from destruction and decay, had performed an economic miracle; and there…

— David Halberstam

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to…

— W. Averell Harriman

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the…

— Paul Hoffman

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of…

— George Papandreou

As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War…

— Michael Beschloss

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them,…

— Óscar Arias

“And it was no accident, in the late forties, that the makers of American policy, unwilling to backtrack with the public, began to try…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

— Nicholas Meyer

“Marshall made it clear that the United States required joint proposals of needs from the European countries, as part of a European Recovery Plan…

— James T. Patterson