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Statement by Robert P. Patterson, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Committee for the
Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery, before the
ERRRY NARA
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on January 22,
1948.
Mr. Chairman, Members of the Foreign Relations Committee, I appear
in behalf of the Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery, a
nation-wide committee of citizens joined together for a common end. Our
National Chairman is Henry L. Stimson.
In broad terms our Committee's name indicates its purpose. I wish
to offer for the record this pamphlet - "A Statement of Purpose" that defines
our aims more specifically. This pamphlet includes the names of the members
of our Executive Committee of which I am Chairman. It also lists the members
of our National Council - by now some 340 strong - men and women from all
parts of the country; leaders of business, agriculture, labor, education;
publishers, public officials; persons of different political affiliations;
persons who differ, I am sure, on many things; but all agreed on the pressing
necessity for a prompt, adequate and sound European Recovery Program.
The critical condition of the nations of Western Europe cannot be
doubted. It is a condition brought about by the ruin, destruction and
economic dislocations of World War II, on a scale without parallel in history.
Those war losses have been aggravated by crop failure last year, and worse
yet by a determination on the part of Soviet Russia to block all efforts toward
recovery in Western Europe.
The people of those countries have launched a cooperative program for
their recovery. The program has these three prime purposes: increase of
production, stabilization of currencies and reduction of trade barriers. But
they also need help from the outside, and most of the help must come from the
United States.
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