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World Service,04 Jun 2010,10 mins

The Marshall Plan

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Sixty years ago, the American secretary of state, General George C Marshall, unveiled a huge rescue plan for a Europe devastated by the Second World War. As well as financial destruction, Europe was also in a moral collapse - could Stalin's Russia offer an alternative ideology - and economic recovery that could combat Germany's financial woes? Louise Hidalgo reports on how the Marshall Plan was crafted and received in the US and Europe.

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