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INCOMING TELEGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS
TELEGRAPH BRANCH
18
PLAIN
A
Action: OTE
Info :
Control 4752
P
EUR
Rec'd April 13, 1948
DCR
6:17 p.m.
FROM sie London
TO:
Secretary of state
NO:
1527, April 13.
FOR PEB SPECIAL EDIT:
Following is partial quotation from independent weekly,
THE ECONOMIST, April 10:
"Men lose capacity for astonishment very easily. Let a
thing be mentioned often enough and they begin to accept it
as a. normal unsensational fact. Few things have been
mentioned more persistently in last ten months than
chances and hopes and possibilities offered by Marshall
Plan. Insensibly, paople have grown used to it. Its
fabulous quality has been stripped away. But this week,
since plan is no longer just hope or chance but concrete
reality van act approved by Congress and signed by President,
provisional funds already granted, ships already sailing
with supplies from American harbors- 1t is fitting that
paoples of Western Europe should attempt to renew their
capacity for wonder, so that they can return to US a
gratitude in some way commensurate with aid they are about
to receive.
Marshall Plan must be retrieved from realm of normal
day-to-day developments in international affairs and be
seen for what it is--an aet without peer in history.
In time of peace,
PLAIN
INFORMATION COPY
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