kennan & the necessary lie

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Tue May 16 07:00:46 PDT 2000



>>The foremost articulator of the shared convictions of America's
>>elite was George Kerman, diplomat-scholar, architect of the Marshall
>>Plan,
>
>George Kennan was an architect of the Marshall Plan? Kennan was a
>security guy, not an economy guy...
>
>Learn something new every day...
>
>
>Brad DeLong

You sure do. The following is from the Library of Congress website: (http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/mars1.html):

"The speech George C. Marshall delivered [at the Harvard University commencement on June 5, 1947 proposing what came to be known as the Marshall Plan] was drafted by Charles E. Bohlen, a State Department official and future ambassador to the Kremlin. As its basis, he used a memo prepared by a State Department Policy Planning staff directed by Soviet-expert George Kennan as well as reports by other State Department officials. Marshall then prepared the final version."

Carl

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