kennan & the necessary lie

[Carl Remick]

>From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>
>>
>>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
>>
>
>Charlie Kindleberger says different...

[How so?  The following can be found at 
http://www.hhs.net/fforward/history/plan15.htm]

In the Halls of the Capitol

A Memoir

By Charles P. Kindleberger

Reprinted by permission from Foreign Affairs, May/June 1997.
Copyright 1997 by the Council on Foreign Relations.

Charles P. Kindleberger joined the Department of Economics at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology upon leaving government service in 
1948 and is Professor Emeritus there. He is former president of the American 
Economic Association.

Once the Europeans had begun to respond to the Marshall initiative, [the 
U.S.] Congress and the executive branch sprang into action. On June 19, 
1947, just two weeks after George Marshall spoke at Harvard, the State 
Department's Policy Planning Staff under George Kennan proposed the 
establishment of several economic and political committees to flesh out the 
speech's vague proposal.

[end of excerpt]

Carl

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